1. Sou Carnaval de São Salvador (Sou Carnaval de São Salvador)
(Sou Carnaval de São Salvador)
2. Selma - Ocupação Luisa Mahin (Selma - Ocupação Luisa Mahin)
(Selma - Ocupação Luisa Mahin)
3. Salvador : vivre sous Bukele (Salvador : vivre sous Bukele)
(Salvador : vivre sous Bukele)
4. Filha da Rua (Filha da Rua)
(Filha da Rua)
5. Ocupar e Resistir - O coração do Centro Histórico (Ocupar e Resistir - O coração do Centro Histórico)
(Ocupar e Resistir - O coração do Centro Histórico)
6. Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê
Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. The selection is based on Afro-centric notions of beauty, in counterpoint to prevailing standards of beauty in Brazil, a country famous for slim supermodels and plastic surgery. Contestants for the title of Ebony Goddess dress in flowing African-style garments, gracefully performing traditional Afro-Brazilian dances to songs praising the beauty of black women.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. Ocupação Olga Benário (Ocupação Olga Benário)
(Ocupação Olga Benário)
8. Menino da Gamboa (Menino da Gamboa)
Gum is a child born and raised at Gamboa island. He admires his older brother, who works as baggage carrier for tourists. Gum wants to be like him.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. The Cotton Wool War (Guerra de Algodão)
Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
10. Cinderella Baiana (Cinderela Baiana)
A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, Raimundo, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.
It has an average vote of 1.579 on TMDB.
11. Every Shadow Seems Alive (Toda Sombra Parece Viva)
Every Shadow Seems Alive
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Argentina, Forgive Me (Argentina, Me Desculpe)
Argentina, Forgive Me
It has an average vote of 9.8 on TMDB.
13. I Will Never Shoot Again (Nunca Mais Vou Filmar)
I Will Never Shoot Again
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. Tungstênio (Tungstênio)
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
15. Glenn Miller 2000 (Glenn Miller 2000)
A monumental homage to Glenn Miller, a one shot film - Glenn Miller 2000. This 26- minute long piece, shot on a circular road in Novi Zagreb in many ways corresponded to the previously discussed attributes that linked Tom's homages and "uses" of Glenn Miller with Miller's music and personality.
16. Room 19
Room 19 follows an elementary school teacher who uses an innovative art curriculum to inspire her students, and transform the way they see the world, and themselves. Room 19 is a third grade classroom at Tulita Elementary School in Redondo Beach, California, the home room of teacher Mrs. Julie Tamashiro. Mrs. Tamashiro has created an innovative learning environment which incorporates in depth arts activities and lessons in her daily curriculum.
17. Mind The Video Man
Think Thank's ninth release Mind The Video Man explores progressive freestyle snowboarding with those in the vanguard and those about to make their mark. A mixture of original Think Thankers and brand new faces come together to throw down Think Thank's best action to date. Follow the video man and his crew as they push the limits of possibility and progression through creativity in an attempt to create something of meaning that will withstand the new media onslaught and the test of time. Mind the video, man.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
18. The Feat (Bragden)
A table tennis documentary about the work the Swedish national team did in the 70's and 80's leading trying to find a way to break the seemingly impenetrable Chinese Wall.
19. Resident Exile
This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980. The three of us saw Kazem Ala, an Iranian student and political exile, briefly interviewed on a local cable access show in Austin, Texas and were very moved by his story. We spent a month filming his day to day life in Houston, during the Iranian-American hostage crisis of 1980. The film was meant to describe in subtle ways what it is to be a political exile in times of political crisis. PBS found it to be a little too subtle, and declined to air it nationally, but the film was televised on various individual PBS outlets, and seeing it recently, I was struck by how, a generation later, we're still dealing with this same situation - the clash between Islam and the West. The Presidents and Ayatollahs may have changed, but politically, things are still at crisis level. - Ross McElwee
20. Head-Dresses of Different Periods (Les chapeaux des belles dames)
A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
