Toquinho

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.

The personal trajectory and the international career of the singer, guitarist, and composer Badi Assad.

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The documentary celebrates the 56-year career of Brazilian guitarist and singer Toquinho, intertwining his artistic journey with intimate and significant moments of his life.

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music.

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.

The documentary tells the Corinthians passion through one of his most famous moments, when the team, who was 23 years without a title, won the Campeonato Paulista final of 1977 against Ponte Preta. The Timão is and always will be the sole, the better. Win or lose. Same spirit that permeated the loyal fans and has only grown in the 23 years that the Corinthians were without titles.

Witness here a historical moment of Brazilian music. At the end of the 70’s, Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho, Tom Jobim and Miúcha took off to Italy, to take part in a TV program called Musicalmente Vinícius (Musically Vinícius). In a casual and intimate atmosphere, the quartet talks and sings songs that define the epoch. Great Bossa Nova classics are presented such as "Aguas de Março", "Samba do Avião", "Wave" and the immortal "Garota de Ipanema". Toquinho and Vinícius also play their hits like "Tarde em Itapoã" and "A Gente vai Levando". Don’t miss this exclusive and never before published moment of these true geniouses of MPB.

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.

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The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.

“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.

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Legendary bossa nova artists Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Toquinho demonstrate on stage why this infectious Brazilian musical genre, with the lilting, alluring sound, has left its global mark. Performing in 1978, the trio runs through such favorites as "Desafinado," "Samba de Orly," "Agua de Beber" and "Canto de Ossaha," plus two songs that launched the worldwide bossa nova revolution, "Girl from Ipanema" and "Wave."

Directed by Martin Ainstein as part of the "Destino Futebol" series, the documentary, produced by ESPN Films, tells the moving story of former player and doctor Sócrates, who passed away on December 4, 2011. The documentary features testimonies from members of the former Corinthians player's family, including his brothers, among them the former player Raí, his mother, and his son Gustavo. Journalists Juca Kfouri, José Trajano, and Xico Sá are also interviewed, as well as musician Toquinho and former Corinthians and Brazilian national team teammates such as Zico and Wladimir. The production showcases Sócrates' time studying medicine in Ribeirão, his journey through the teams Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo, and, of course, the national team. It's a great story told by people who knew the idol, remembering key moments of Sócrates' career as a doctor, player, musician, and writer.