Maria Rita Kehl
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker’s words this experimental short is about “the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society”. It takes the viewer on a disorienting journey—with abrupt cuts in sound and image—through the Catholic Church, repressed sexuality, racial violence perpetrated by white women, maternal fatigue, male chauvinism and drug addiction…

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe.

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Self
A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Self
‘How are women doing in Brazil?’. It is this intriguing question, posed by an Italian journalist, that Helena Solberg tries to answer through elements of her films, from the 1960s to the present day. Along the way, encounters with figures such as Heloisa Teixeira, Rita von Hunty and Helena Vieira illuminate some of the cracks in this broad debate.

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Envisioned in the midst of the greatest political crisis in Brazil’s history, this documentary investigates the polarization that has unprecedentedly inflamed a country in which miscegenation and cordiality are considered to be founding myths and its parallel in the world. Edging the border of documentary, the film builds an urgent portrait of Brazil today.