1987 film by João Batista de Andrade

When Brazil finally came out from its dictatorship period, Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president after 20 years of military rule, got ill with a strange infection and finally died on 21 April 1985 before taking office. Knowing political stability could get compromised, before dying, he tried to look healthy, and the press also helped with the farce. The documentary is about his slow public agony and death.

Às margens do lago Paranoá, em Brasília, um contador de histórias entretém todos os dias os frequentadores de um bar com suas narrativas. Só que uma delas ele reluta em levar até o fim: a do assassinato de duas meninas, que teve como única tetemunha um rapaz cego (Luciano Porto), que tateou o rosto de um dos assassinos.

1978 film by João Batista de Andrade

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.