Cinema Novo

Cinema novo, Eryk Rocha, Brazil, 2016, 92', OV with subtiotles in Spanish, DCP.

 “Cinema Novo is a film about a generation – that of the 1950s and 60s – that created a new way of making films in Brazil. A new attitude that meant going out onto the streets to accompany the Brazilian people, taking ownership of new forms of language to formulate aesthetic and cultural questions on a new basis. What is the image of Brazil? What should be filmed, and how? These questions were reformulated based on a new political stance that blended art and the revolution. Cinema Novo created images for Brazil, and from Brazil, for the world.”
Eryk Rocha, director of the film.

“Wherever there is a filmmaker willing to confront commercialism, exploitation, pornography, technicalism, Cinema Novo will have a living cell. Wherever there is a filmmaker of any age or origin ready to put his films and his profession at the service of the crucial causes of his times, Cinema Novo will have a living cell”.
Glauber Rocha, filmmaker, Eryk’s father and one of the founders of Cinema Novo. 

“A camera in the hand and an idea in the head”. That was the motto of Cinema Novo, a filmmaking movement of the 1950s and 60s that changed the face of Brazilian cinema for ever. And maybe the world too, as the new forms of making films combined neo-realism and new waves without any hesitation to revolutionise both movie theatres and entire peoples.

This documentary essay, made by one of the sons of that revolution, explores one of the most important cultural and political movement s in Latin America through its main authors. The result is a portrait of a generation of directors (Glauber Rocha, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos, Rui Guerra, Carlos Diegues...) who invented a new way of filmmaking by combining art, politics, condemnation and commitment with truth and aesthetic boldness. 

L’oeil D’or Prize for the Best Documentary in the Cannes Film Festival 2016.