Movies: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder of the band Garotos Podres, an iconic Brazilian punk band from the 80s....

A documentary about the 1979 workers strike....

Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, L...

The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies....

Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in the first years of the 21st century in Argentina. His Government and his political leadership starred in the brightest moment since the return of democr...

Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become Pr...

Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process....

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registere...

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful a...

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Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations....

Documentary on the history of syndicalism in Brazil....

"El odio" describes the discrediting campaign against Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party in Brazil, demonstrating how this process led Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Conducted by Argentine documentary filmmaker Andrés Sal.lari, also details the ...

This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years....

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Composed of videos published on YouTube by Petrobras contractors, the film explores an important chapter in the country through fragments of working life inside and outside the factory. With their own hands, the working class registers - over a decad...

The filmmaker has shot for 16 years Lula da Silva's trajectory on politics which took him to the Presidency of Brazil. Through unique indie filmmaking, we observe the path that takes him to get elected, reelected, impeachment of his successor and col...

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The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows t...