If we were born from Portuguese sails and pay so dearly to live close to the sea, why do we enjoy it so little? What made the Brazilian so little fan of candles? And if we are so few seagoers, what makes Brazil one of the biggest names in world yachting? Starting from these questions, the documentary tries to answer them through testimonies of several names of national sailing and rich historical research.

MAR ME QUER

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.