Cinema Novo (Improvisiert und zielbewusst)
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1966, 31 min
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's 'Cinema Novo' (1967), originally made for German television, assembles fragments from the movement's seminal works into a vivid cinematic manifesto. Through this collage, Andrade captures the movement’s restless search for a revolutionary aesthetics that could address Brazil's poverty, inequality, and political repression.

Couro de Gato / Cat Skin
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1962, 12 min
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's first fiction film tells a moving story of childhood in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, drawing heavily on the aesthetics and politics of Italian Neorealism. The short film would later be included in the collective project Cinco vezes favela (Favela 5x, 1963), commonly considered the official starting point of Cinema Novo, produced by the National Students Union.

Maioria Absoluta / Absolute Majority
Leon Hirszman, 1964, 18 min
Statistics, interviews, and historical information on the problems of large estates in Brazil's agrarian structure. Influenced by direct cinema techniques, the film embodies Cinema Novo's spirit of political engagement and is a sociological reflection on the symbolic and structural violence endured by peasants in Northeastern Brazil.

A Entrevista / The Interview
Helena Solberg, 1966, 20 min
Interviews with upper-middle-class young women between the ages of 19 and 27 explore marriage, sex, virginity, fidelity, happiness, work, and the social roles attributed or imposed on women. Beneath these testimonies emerges a conventional profile of the "ideal" Brazilian woman, shaped both by gender oppression and the military repression of the time.