(Português) Bressane, Júlio

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1946 By Luiz Felipe Alves de Miranda Júlio Eduardo Bressane de Azevedo is regarded as an experimental filmmaker. His debut feature film, Cara a cara (1968), was a poetic film close to the ideals of Cinema Novo. He made two landmark works that inaugurated the concept…

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(Português) Borges, Jorge Luis

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1889 - Geneva (Switzerland), 1986 By Flávio Aguiar One of the foundational pillars of 20th-century Latin American literature, he ensured both the renewal and the re-engagement with Western cultural roots for the continent. He created the Martín Fierro group, a mouthpiece for the literary avant-garde in Argentina…

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(Português) Boff, Leonardo

Concórdia (Brazil), 1938 By Carlos Eduardo Martins Leonardo Boff, author of approximately sixty books and a former Franciscan, studied philosophy and theology, obtaining a doctorate in these areas from the University of Munich (Germany) in 1970. As one of the founders of Liberation Theology, he published several key works that…

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