João Moreira Salles

João Moreira Salles

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News From a Personal War 1999 (7.8)

A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners.
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Santiago 2007 (7.6)

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
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In the Intense Now 2017 (7.8)

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
João Salles

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Let the Sun 2019

Bárbara accepts unwillingly her ex boyfriend’s invitation for a date, and soon she regrets the decision. "Any human ear would not hear now any call". The short film offers a new perspective of the short story "Come and See the Sunset", by the Brazilian author Lygia Fagundes Telles.
João P. Salles

João P. Salles

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Canastra Suja 2016 (7.2)

Batista and Maria form a couple who, apparently, are very happy in their marriage. However, the truth is that appearances deceive and much; in the background, Batista, an inveterate alcoholic and Maria, who has an affair with her eldest daughter's boyfriend, Emilia, represents a family on the edge of the ruins.