La mi-Carême à Paris

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

Explores three astonishing worlds lying beneath Paris: a vast sewer network, the world's busiest metro, and a maze of ancient quarries hiding a dark...

Pelé, a retired nurse, revisits his memories as a performer in the Boi Tira-Teima group from Caruaru, Pernambuco. Between longing for the past...

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France,...

Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a...