Ricardo Pretti Movies

The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of...

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new...

A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And...

A lonely man wanders lost by a post-apocalyptic city.

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro,...

Jockey Club. Rio de Janeiro, August 7th. Hats circulate through the halls of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut...

Jorge Bodanzky is, to a large extent, a filmmaker who travels. Constant movement is a hallmark of his creative process, encompassing both personal...

“Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for...

Four friends are reunited in a night that is moved by a game of lies and truth with unexpected consequences. This movie is based on the theatrical...

One summer night, Lúcia, a botanist from Rio de Janeiro, dreams of a mysterious presence. But when she wakes, everything has dissipated,...

Gledson is a lonely worker who left his hometown with the dream of becoming an actor in Rio de Janeiro. Tormented by vague memories of his past, he...

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.

A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without...

João, mounted on his horse Cruzeiro, and in the company of a wanderer named Tahiel, enters a large city in northeastern Brazil to face the one...

Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His...

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage,...