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Cinema Novo

On Cinema • 1h 32m

Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2016 • 90 minutes

CINEMA NOVO is a film essay that poetically investigates the eponimous Brazilian film movement, the most prominent in Latin America in the past century, through the analysis of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira do Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Caca Diegue, Walter Lima Jr, Paulo Cesar Saraceni, among others.

'An impressionistic homage to the movement that changed Brazilian film forever.' - Variety

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americas, anthropology and archaeology, area studies, art and architecture, brazil, caca diegue, cinema history, cinema novo, communication and media studies, cultural anthropology, doc, documentary films, eryk rocha, expository, film and video studies, film history, glauber, glauber rocha, graphic design, history, icarus films, joaquim pedro de andrade, latamerica, latin american history, latin american studies, leon hirszman, nelson pereira do santos, novo, ovid, ovid_ca, paulo cesar saraceni, rocha, ruy guerra, s_0065, s_0074, s_0107, s_0128, s_0171, s_0436, s_0638, south america, the, title_abc, title_c, visual arts, walter lima jr, whyovid, world history, world regions

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