Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias Movies

On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society....

Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid...

In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem.

Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.

A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole.

A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.

Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get...

As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by...

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a...

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.

Ozualdo Candeias was a grumpy truck driver. He never lost the verve of this strange form of freedom, trapped in the cab and facing the varied...

A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.