Movies: Pierre Verger

  • 1998
    Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

    Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds (1998)

    Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

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    Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture....

    Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
  • 2023
    Môa, Mother Africa Roots

    Môa, Mother Africa Roots (2023)

    Môa, Mother Africa Roots

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    The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Afoxé Badauê, intertwined with the rise of black cultural manifestations in Bahia, based on a last int...

    Môa, Mother Africa Roots
  • 1996
    Jorge Amado

    Jorge Amado (1996)

    Jorge Amado

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    Jorge Amado
  • 2003
    Abry

    Abry (2003)

    Abry

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    At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass...

    Abry
  • 1985
    Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40

    Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40 (1985)

    Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40

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    Documentary about Carnival, narrated by anthropologist and photographer Pierre Verger, who came to Brazil in the 1940s. Video tells the origins of Carnival in Salvador, with the Blocos and Afoxés, and the traditions of frevo and maracatu in Recife, w...

    Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40