Ferreira Gullar, pseudonym of José Ribamar Ferreira (São Luís, September 10, 1930 – Rio de Janeiro, December 4, 2016), was a Brazilian writer, poet, art critic, biographer, translator, memoirist and essayist and one of the founders of neoconcretism. He was the candidate for chair 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in the vacancy left by Ivan Junqueira, of which he took office on December 5, 2014.

KNOWN FOR

Irmãos Coragem
1995
Araponga
1990
Carga Pesada
2003
Obrigado, Doutor
1981
O Fim do Mundo
1996
Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos
1998
As Noivas de Copacabana
1992
1964: 40 Years After
2004
They Shot the Piano Player
2023
O Canto Livre de Nara Leão
2022
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos - O Filme
2015
Dossiê Jango
2013

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
55
Writing
11
Crew
1
2026
O Peso do Céu Vazio
2024
Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
as Self
2023
They Shot the Piano Player
as Self (voice)
2022
O Canto Livre de Nara Leão
as Self
2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
as Self
2017
Gabeira
as Self
2015
Estrada de Sonhos
as himself
2014
O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
2014
Plano B
2013
Bonfanti
2013
Dossiê Jango
as Self
2013
Darcy, um Brasileiro
as Self
2010
Poema Sujo
as Self
2010
Formas do Afeto
as Himself
2010
The Inventor of Dreams
2010
Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed
as Self
2009
Utopia and Barbarism
2009
A Raça Síntese de Joãosinho Trinta
2009
Flávio Rangel - O Teatro na Palma da Mão
as Self
2008
A Paixão Segundo Callado
as Self
2007
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
as Self
2005
Vinicius de Moraes
as Self
2005
João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece
as Self
2005
A Degola Fatal
as Self (archive footage)
2004
1964: 40 Years After
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self (voice)
2002
Poeta de Sete Faces
as Self
2000
Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil
1997
Cinema Brasileiro, Mercado Ocupado
as Narrator (voice)
1997
The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes
as Himself
1991
The Memory Thread
as Narrator
1990
ABC of a Strike
as Narrator
1987
Imagens do Inconsciente: A Barca do Sol
as Narrador
1987
Images of the Unconscious
as Narrator (voice)
1987
Vianinha
1984
Twenty Years Later
as Narrator
1984
Memórias da Vida e do Trabalho
as Narrador
1983
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
as Self
1981
Iya-Mi-Agbá
as Narrator
1979
HO
as Self
1978
Plantar nas Estrelas
as narrador
1978
O Aleijadinho
as Narrator
1978
Waldemar Henrique canta Belém
as Narrador
1976
Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau
as Narrator (voice)
1976
Cantos de Trabalho - Cana de Açúcar
as Narrator (voice)
1972
Câncer
as Self
1970
The Language of Persuasion
as Narrador
1970
The Heirs
as Davi Martins
1969
O Guesa
as Narrador
1968
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City
as Narrator (voice)
1968
Desesperato
1968
On Borrowed Time
as Chefe da redação
1966
Lima Barreto: Trajetória
as Narrador
1964
Absolute Majority
as Narrator (voice)