Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Birthday: Born in 1945-10-27 in Caetés, Pernambuco, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011. He is a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) and ran for president three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election, then again in 1994 and 1998. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as president on 1 January 2003. In the 2006 election he was elected for a second term as president, which ended on 31 December 2010. Succeeded by his former Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff, he left an enduring mark on Brazilian politics in the form of Lulism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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360°
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Debate, opinions and controversial matters under the look of Daniel Matamala....
Meteoro Entrevista
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O Brasil que Dá Certo: Os Bastidores do Plano Real
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Programa do Jô
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Programa do Jô is a Brazilian late-night talk show broadcast by Rede Globo since April 3, 2000. It is shown after the late-night news bulletin, Jornal da Globo. The program is hosted by Brazilian comedian, author and musician Jô Soares, and follows the format of American talk shows such as Late Show with David Letterman. It began its life as Jô Soares Onze e Meia in 1988 on SBT. Following Jô Soares' return to Globo in 2000, the show was renamed as Programa do Jô, retaining the same format and l...
Festival di Sanremo
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The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
Linhas Cruzadas
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O Teatro das Tesouras
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A series of documentaries about Brazilian presidential elections....
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Mais um Dia na Natureza
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8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente
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The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and every one of the eight Presidents of Brazil who took office since the end of the military government, from José Sarney to Jair Bolsonaro....
Toninho 20 anos: a verdade é demais para nós?
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South of the Border
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A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents....
Women Metalworkers
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In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes film...
A Symphony for a Common Man
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As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America’s march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures....
Beyond Citizen Kane
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Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. Acc...
The Coup d'État Factory
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Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations....
Trabalhadores: Presente!
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Brasil, Ame-o ou Chore
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Chão de Fábrica
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Documentary on the history of syndicalism in Brazil....
A Luta do Povo
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Short documentary on workers' movement in Brazil in the 1970s, such as the Movement Against Famine, and the policial repression against demonstrators and activists....
A Day in the Life
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The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter....
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
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This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God....
Lula: Bastidores da Vitória
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8/1 – A Democracia Resiste
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Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden....
580 Dias
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Reporter Joaquim de Carvalho reconstructs the 580 days of Lula's unjust imprisonment, with exclusive testimonials from those who closely followed the former president's day-to-day life from the concentration at the ABC Metallurgical Union, the presentation to the Federal Police, the flight to Curitiba, prison until release. Documentary shows unprecedented backstage. The direction is by Joaquim de Carvalho and Patri Salgado, with images by Eric Monteiro and photography by Ricardo Stuckert and Vig...
The Visit
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In 1982, a young Lula embarks on a campaign trip to Recife where intimate moments from the leader’s trip are captured on Super 8. THE VISIT was resurrected from original archival Super 8 footage from 1982 and edited over 42 years later to create a short film that offers a unique glimpse into the early political life of future Brazilian president Luiz Inácio da Silva as he engages with party colleagues and passionate activists in an effort to strengthen their party against the military dictators...
Acidente de Trabalho
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Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
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The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role o...
Intermissions
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Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula is afraid that he will lose his freedom as president. Combined with Lula's candor, the film's observational style provides some very special insight into one of Brazil's most popular leaders....
ABC of a Strike
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ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national pr...
Rotten Boy
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The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder of the band Garotos Podres, an iconic Brazilian punk band from the 80s....
O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio
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Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his childhood as a mill boy to the final stage, with his famous campaign for the democratic restoration of the country. At this point, he was a man on the brink of death, already victimized by the cancer that would kill him....
Noises From The Agora
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Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of Brazilian politics. The daily political debate in a small newsstand in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and the sound, visual and spatial noises of the contemporary agora....
Déjà Vu - O Primeiro Ano do "Novo" Governo Lula
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Lula Presidente: Da perseguição política à esperança renovada
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Visita, Presidente
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The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison....
Muda Brasil
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The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events that culminated in the election of Tancredo Neves as the first civilian president after 20 years of military dictatorship....
Lula
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An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison....
Zona Eleitoral
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Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election....
Linha de Montagem
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Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become President of Brazil. It was also the moment when PT, the Workers' Party, became a relevant political force in Brazil....
Lula Golbery Odebrecht da Silva
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De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
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When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader....
Josué de Castro - Por um Mundo sem Fome
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Greve
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A documentary about the 1979 workers strike....
Que Ninguém, Nunca Mais, Ouse Duvidar da Capacidade de Luta dos Trabalhadores
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The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows the large assemblies, with more than 100 thousand metalworkers, in the Vila Euclides field, in São Bernardo do Campo; the mobilization for a vigil at the Union; the resulting street conflicts and the triumphant return of the board, headed by Lula, in ...
Atos: A campanha pública de Lula
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Democracia em Preto e Branco
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Brazilian soccer players Sócrates, Casagrande and Vladimir lead a historic movement in sports by adopting a democracy within their team, making a statement against the country's military dictatorship....
The Trial
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The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full ...
Lower House
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During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff....
The Next Victim
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A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood....
The Edge of Democracy
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A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains....
Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 Anos de Timão
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Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 anos de Timão tells the saga of a team that was born from the hands of five workers to become a real social phenomenon. Rescues images never before seen footage as the first of Corinthians in 1929, plus historic interviews of the first team's idols, as Neco, Del Debbio, Baltazar and Luizinho. Brings together for the first time, the major superstars that recall the glories of these 100 years of history through more than 200 goals. It features unreleased song of Bid, R...
Brazil: The Great Jump Backward
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Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process....
Darcy, um Brasileiro
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Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia seeks to expose a bit of his personality with testimonials from friends, collaborators and speeches by Darcy himself....
Imagens de um Sonho
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Composed of videos published on YouTube by Petrobras contractors, the film explores an important chapter in the country through fragments of working life inside and outside the factory. With their own hands, the working class registers - over a decade (2008-2018) - the joys and disappointments of their journey....
Encantado, le Brésil désenchanté
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Considered for a few years the “country of the future”, Brazil has seen since 2013 a deep disenchantment between the middle and popular classes that culminated with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency in 2018. Enchanted portrays this recent Brazilian history from a homonymous neighborhood of the Rio suburb transfigured by the 2016 Olympics. From Rio to Paris, a political and poetic testimony of Brazil through the eyes of the first generation of the popular class to study abroad....
Citizen Lula
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The filmmaker has shot for 16 years Lula da Silva's trajectory on politics which took him to the Presidency of Brazil. Through unique indie filmmaking, we observe the path that takes him to get elected, reelected, impeachment of his successor and colleague Dilma Rousseff, and Lula's incarceration process that paved the way to Jair Bolsonaro's presidential triumph in 2018....
El Odio
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"El odio" describes the discrediting campaign against Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party in Brazil, demonstrating how this process led Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Conducted by Argentine documentary filmmaker Andrés Sal.lari, also details the participation of Judge Sergio Moro, the media and Washington in the entire operation....
A, B, C, Brasil
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Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT...
3 Meals
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This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years....
The Inconclusive Independence
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Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....
Alvorada
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The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers....
Golpe de Ouro
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After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society....
Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
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Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements....
Dia 30 em Atos
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Breaking Myths
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“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical far-right politician who can best be described as the Brazilian Donald Trump — and who is up for a second term this October. The story is told through the lens of the critically acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker and LGBTQ activist Fernando Grostein Andrade (“Abe” Sundance 19), who directed, wrote, and produced the feature alongside creative partner Fe...
Dias de Euforia
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Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country....
Néstor, su huella
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Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in the first years of the 21st century in Argentina. His Government and his political leadership starred in the brightest moment since the return of democracy in 1983, both in terms of memory, truth and justice, as well as breaking the infernal circle of debt and subjection to external powers, energetically reactivating the economy and employment, promoting science and technology and the expansion of r...
8 de Janeiro: O Dia que Abalou o Brasil
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Just one week after the inauguration of the new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, supporters of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brasília: the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Federal Court. Unhappy with their defeat at the polls and guided by fake news and conspiracy theories, many of the pro-Bolsonaro invaders believed that the Armed Forces would overthrow the newly inaugurated government. ...
Minha Terra Estrangeira
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Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship
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In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?...