L’âge d'or du cinéma

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  The golden age of Brazilian cinema: Cinema Novo

  A documentary directed by Dominique Dreyfus.

  Cin­ema Novo, born at the end of the 1950’s, ranked Brazil­ian cin­ema among the world’s great­est mod­ern pro­duc­tions. Five film­mak­ers of this period remem­ber this adven­ture, which gave Brazil­ian cin­ema an iden­tity of its own. They recount how, notwith­stand­ing the con­ser­v­a­tive soci­ety, they over­came all finan­cial, tech­ni­cal and polit­i­cal obstacles. […]

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  The golden age of the Cuban cinema

  A documentary directed by Ramon Suarez.

  In March 1959, will be cre­ated in Havana the ICAIC, the Cuban Insti­tute of Art and Cin­e­mato­graphic Indus­try. It is the first act of the cul­tural pol­icy of the new mode. Dur­ing the ten years which will fol­low, under the aegis of this orga­ni­za­tion the Cuban cin­ema makes incred­i­ble great […]

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