Helena Ignez Filmes

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story

A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer...

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80...

Close to turning forty and away from his job as a librarian due to depression, Marcos needs to take care of Baby, his sister's pet dog. Isolated in...

Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in 'La pa', 'Rio De Janeiro', extended to Paris...

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons...

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian...

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit"...

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the...

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker,...

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...