João Luiz Vieira

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Narrator

In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Giovanni Feliciani

Two young film students, Pedro and George, who spend more time watching films than studying, go to the video store to pick up some films for another weekend of student procrastination. There, the two rent a film that was mistakenly delivered by a member of a family of sadistic cinephiles. Unaware that they have an incriminating DVD, Pedro and George run the risk of participating in a bloodthirsty film where they will be hunted.

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Self

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.