Movies by José Cardoso

Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.

Iwianch, the Devil Deer

Iwianch, the Devil Deer

An enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenager has disappeared. During the search for the young man, his family decides to consult with a Shaman, who, immersed in trance, reveals that the young man was taken by the devil, but that he has intervened by showing him the way back to his home. While waiting for his return, secrets of the rainforest and Amazonian visions of life after death are touched, vanishing the documentary filmmaker’s concepts of reality.