Eryk Rocha Movies

With her radical voice, visceral improvisation, and unmistakable rasp, Elza Soares created a language all her own and crossed generations,...

The documentary is a journey into the open heart of South America, through the Brazilian forest toward Peru and Bolivia, where is the reality of...

A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it...

A documentary about the creative process of Arrigo Barnabé

On the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.

Intervalo Clandestino is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country's social and...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support...

La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport...

Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and...

Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which...

With a constellation of black voices and presences, the short film takes a dizzying journey between ancestral and contemporary territories. On this...

Igor is a teenager with a lot of potential and energy, but without the motivation to stay in school. His case reflects the situation in which many...

When the flowers of the Mari tree bloom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman lead to an oneiric experience through the synergy between cinema...

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating...

Filmmaker Paula Gaitán and Richard Peña, a professor at Columbia University and former director of film programming at Lincoln Center,...

An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the...

Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles

A Yanomami woman watches a shaman prepare the Yãkoana, food for the spirits. Based on the narrative of a young indigenous woman, the...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...