Vera Valdez

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Birthday
May 26, 1936 (89 years old)

Vera Valdez

Known For

Aunt Virginia
1h 37m
Movie 2023

Aunt Virginia

Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film follows Virginia's preparation to receive the sisters who are coming to her house to celebrate Christmas.

Joy Is the Acid Test
1h 41m
Movie 2023

Joy Is the Acid Test

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.

La Abuela (The Grandmother)
1h 41m
Movie 2022

La Abuela (The Grandmother)

Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.

Avá - Até Que os Ventos Aterrem
1h 2m
Movie 2021

Avá - Até Que os Ventos Aterrem

53,000 years before or after anyone. for three days the axis of the earth has stopped. The sun and moon inhabit the earth's horizon at the same time, aligned. The vibrations on the surface have reduced considerably, we are now very close to vital ground zero. Plant cells and human hemoglobin need to meet. There is only one moment for photosynthesis. The horror of the tropics gnawed at every eye. Free the condensed particle of everything.

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
1h 48m
Movie 2021

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Cora
1h 21m
Movie 2021

Cora

2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.

Ex-Humanos
0h 18m
Movie 2019

Ex-Humanos

In Brazil of yore, ex-humans feed on a fleeting drug.

My Calendar Girl
1h 26m
Movie 2018

My Calendar Girl

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.

Sol Alegria
1h 31m
Movie 2018

Sol Alegria

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.

On Wheels
1h 12m
Movie 2017

On Wheels

13-year-old Lucas makes a new friend in his classmate Lais, and joins her on an epic journey to find the father she has never known.

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