After celebrating its three Oscar nominations for Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” with the same excitement it normally reserves for the soccer World Cup, Brazil went into overdrive when it took home ...

If you're sick of A Christmas Carol or Home Alone and want a Christmas film that feels different, there's never been a better ...

Netflix’s latest Brazil slate includes a series set in the world of MMA; another about the iconic Brazilian football team of the 1970s; a movie spin-off of the Sintonia series; and documentaries about ...

Filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho, who is making his third go-round here in Cannes competition with the highly lauded The Secret Agent, is elated to be part of a big comeback for Brazilian cinema. But, ...

Brazilian cinema is riding high at the moment, led by Walter Salles' triple Oscar contender 'I'm Still Here.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Brazil will be the official country of honor at ...

The best international feature Academy Award for Walter Salles’ timely drama backdropped the annual celebrations and validated a political movement: “It’s hard to put into words just how big of a ...

There's something mildly remarkable happening this awards season. Two of the competing films going head to head in the best picture, international film and actress categories are foreign-language ...

Brazil’s big moment in the international cultural sun is still ahead of us. Hipsters might resist this assertion; after all, they’ve been onto Brazil since at least 2002, when Fernando Meirelles ...

The first time Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Neighbouring Sounds”) visited L.A.’s historic Broadway Theater District, he plotted a return with a camera to record the dozen movie ...