We've cherry-picked these 3 titles from our Brazil on Film collection, for you to enjoy a curated taste of the reinvention, revolutionary energy and radical experimentation of Brazilian cinema. 

Fleeing the law after killing his boss, Manuel (Geraldo Del Rey) and his wife Rosa (Yoná Magalhães) head to a land where a religious cult, headed by a self-crowned saint. From there they fall in with peasant bandits and find themselves caught between god and the devil, as Glauber Rocha's story - which became the headline film of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement - digs in.

New laws, passed by the country's military dictatorship, allowed tyranny and censorship to worsen, so this anarchic comedy was a bold response. Macunaíma is a shapeshifter born fully grown and destined to begin a magical quest which shows the many sides of a nation in tumult.

An isolated young man finds liberation as a cam boy, daubed in paint and dancing in chatrooms. The discovery of a rival who uses the same techniques gives him a foe who soon becomes a friend, two bruised people united by a need to fight for who they are.