Carnaval Movies

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima....

Herdeiros (Heirs) is a documentary about samba, about carnival, about the power of a resistant tradition. Shot in Morro da Serrinha in Rio, the film...

Each person is a Carnival and Marina knows which one she is. On the slopes of Olinda she seeks the ecstasy of carnival revelry, the music, the...

Italian drama from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

Short Pathé comedy.

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during its world famous Carnival, far from the beach and the touristic clichés, there is an explosive...

The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread all over the city and the hand-crafted...

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

Documentary exploring the Carnaval de Laza, its ancient traditions and modern practitioners.

Juana, a young woman in her twenties sets out on a backpacking trip to the northwest of Argentina. Her aim is to find some places and people that...

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.

Short by Jomard Muniz de Britto

Made for a show beside the seaside in Margate.

Matheus, a young man with self-steem problems, goes to his grandmother's house to spend the carnaval with his family. There, he sees his old friends...