[ March 10, 2010; 8:00 PM; ] By Rodrigo Brandão

This coming Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Anthology Film Archives will host a screening of Brazilian short films curated by Maria Baptista, at 8pm. This one-night showing of animation, documentaries and fiction short films is an homage to the female universe, and brings a total of nine films made by directors of both genders.

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[ February 25, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] The feature film Simonal, No One Knows How Tough It Was, screens on February 25, at the 92YTribeca, as part of Cinema Tropical’s Janeiro in New York film series. This year, the series of Brazilian films programmed by Mary Jane Marcasiano focuses on Brazil’s musical legacy.

Waste Land (2009), a documentary focused on the relationship between Brazilian art star Vik Muniz and garbage pickers in the world’s largest landfill in Rio de Janeiro, won the Audience Award (in the World Cinema Doc category) on January 30, 2010, at the Sundance Film Festival.

During their initial years as a muted medium, motion pictures were a globe-gamboling unicorn magically uniting the planet through their gnostic, prelapsarian eschewment of language proper.

[ January 28, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] Part of the series Cinema Tropical’s Music + Film Series: Janeiro in New York, the 92Y Tribaca located on 200 Hudson Street, in New York city, will be screening the influential samba documentary O Mistério do Samba (The Mystery of Samba) on Thursday, January 28, at 7pm.

[ December 10, 2009; 7:00 PM; ] Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music presents a long overdue look at the powerful impact that Brazilian music has had on the American musical landscape. It’s a stylish crash course in Brazilian music, mixing vintage film clips, a funky soundtrack and an array of appearances by seminal figures from record producers Creed Taylor and Arto Lindsay, Tropicália icons Tom Zé, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil to Bossa Nova legends Roberto Menescal, Oscar Castro Néves and Carlos Lyra.

[ December 3, 2009; 8:30 PM; ] The world post-World War II and its transformations; the utopias that were created and the barbarity that have marked it. The dismantling of the dreaming generation of 1968 and the creation of new prospects in a globalized world. —33ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema

[ November 6, 2009; 4:30 PM; November 11, 2009; 7:00 PM; ] One of Brazil’s finest actors makes his directorial debut with this deeply disturbing tale about the deprivation and manipulation simmering beneath extreme religious ritual and superstition