Helena Ignez Movies

Extracts is a short film with images from 1970 to 1972 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Marrakech, Rabat and the Sahara Desert...

A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.

In an old, dilapidated mansion in downtown São Paulo, an old Shakespearean actor exiled from the stage lives with his ghosts. In his bed,...

An old man is tired of celebrating his birthday.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

Guilherme, who has the police on his trail for having been involved with a niece of the mayor of his city, runs away with the girl after receiving...

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a...

A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out...

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

The human body in 5 parts.

Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty...