Helena Ignez Movies

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices,...

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes...

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented...

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

Guitarist Lanny Gordin was one of the fundamental characters in the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1960s onwards. He electrified Gal...

Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the...

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Short film by Helena Ignez, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.

Marcos returns home after a few years away.

In this animated fairy-tale Filly, a lesbian fairy with nimble fingers, seduces women by day dressed as a boy. But at night something strange happens...

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a...

Elias sees his world threatened when his ex-wife, one recovering junkie, asks for the guard of their son. Fito is in desperation for losing his...