Ruth de Souza Movies

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and...

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an...

A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes...

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step.

Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls...

A drama about double personality