List of animated films made in Brazil. [1]
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1917 | ||||||
Kaiser | Álvaro Marins | Traditional animation | Brazil's first animated short film. Original lost. | |||
Traquinices de Chiquinho e seu inseparável amigo Jagunço | Unknown | Traditional animation | Based on the comic strip published in the magazine O Tico-Tico. Lost. | |||
1918 | ||||||
As Aventuras de Bille e Bolle | Traditional animation | Lost. |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1929 | ||||||
Macaco Feio, Macaco Bonito | Luiz Seel | Traditional animation | Oldest record of a Brazilian Animation Film with Preserved Copy. |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1930 | ||||||
Frivolitá | Luiz Seel | Traditional animation | ||||
1938 | ||||||
Virgulino Apanha | Luiz Sá | Traditional animation | Partially Lost. | |||
As Aventuras de Virgulino | Luiz Sá | Traditional animation | Partially Lost. |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1940 | ||||||
Os Azares de Lulu | Anélio Latini Filho | Traditional animation | ||||
1942 | ||||||
O Dragãozinho Manso: Jonjoca [2] | Humberto Mauro | Puppetry | First animated movie featuring puppets. |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1951 | ||||||
Amazon Symphony | Roberto Miller | Traditional animation | Brazil's first animated feature-length film [3] | |||
1957 | ||||||
Rumba | Anelio Latini | Experimental animation | ||||
1959 | ||||||
Boogie Woogie | Roberto Miller | Experimental animation |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1970 | ||||||
Batuque | Pedro Ernesto Stilpen | Traditional animation | Awarded as the Best Animation by the Popular Jury of the Brasília Festival in 1970. | |||
1971 | ||||||
Presente de Natal | Álvaro Henrique Gonçalves | Traditional animation | Lost. | |||
Carnaval 2001 | Roberto Miller | Experimental animation | ||||
1972 | ||||||
Piconzé | Ypê Nakashima | Traditional animation | First color animated Brazilian feature film [4] | |||
Balé de Lissajous | Aluízio Arcela and José Mário Parrot | CG animation | First computer-animated short film made in Brazil, in honor of the French physicist Jules Antoine Lissajous. | |||
1974 | ||||||
Carcará | Ruy Perotti | Traditional animation | Pilot short film for a television series that was never produced. | |||
1975 | ||||||
Ícaro e o Labirinto | Antônio Moreno | Live-action/animated film | Pilot short film for a television series that was never produced. | |||
1976 | ||||||
O Natal da Turma da Mônica | Mauricio de Sousa and Jayme Cortez | Traditional animation | Short animation. First Brazilian Animation Film made for Television that was successfully completed. | |||
1978 | ||||||
Can-Can | Roberto Miller | Experimental animation | ||||
1979 | ||||||
A Saga da Asa Branca | Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira | Traditional animation |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1981 | ||||||
Meow! | Marcos Magalhães | Traditional animation | Short film winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, 1982 | |||
1982 | ||||||
Squich | Flávio del Carlo | Live-action/animated film | Short film winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, 1982 | |||
As Aventuras da Turma da Mônica | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
Animando | Marcos Magalhães | Traditional animation | Short film showing various animation techniques | |||
1983 | ||||||
Tzubra Tzuma | Flávio del Carlo | Traditional animation | ||||
Turma da Mônica - A Princesa e o Robô | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1984 | ||||||
Boi Aruá | Chico Liberato | Traditional animation | ||||
1985 | ||||||
Planeta Terra | Marcos Magalhães | Traditional animation | Short Film with the participation of thirty artists, for the International Year of Peace (1986) | |||
Os Trapalhões no Reino da Fantasia | Dedé Santana | Live-action/animated film | Animated Sequence in a Live-Action Feature Film | |||
1986 | ||||||
Frankenstein Punk | Cao Hamburger and Eliana Fonseca | Stop-motion | ||||
Noturno | Aída Queiroz | Traditional animation | ||||
Masp Movie | Hamilton Zini Jr. | Traditional animation | ||||
As Novas Aventuras da Turma da Mônica | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
Os Trapalhões no Rabo do Cometa | Dedé Santana | Live-action/animated film | ||||
1987 | ||||||
Mônica e a Sereia do Rio | Maurício de Sousa | Live-action/animated film | ||||
Turma da Mônica em: O Bicho-Papão | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1988 | ||||||
Adeus | Céu D'Ellia | Traditional animation | ||||
A Garota das Telas | Cao Hamburger | Traditional animation | ||||
Turma da Mônica e a Estrelinha Mágica | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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1990 | ||||||
Chico Bento, Oia a Onça! | Maurício de Sousa | Traditional animation | Medium-length (Collection of Short Films); First Brazilian Animation Film Released Direct-to-Video | |||
1991 | ||||||
The Christmas Tree | Flamarion Ferreira | Traditional animation | ||||
1993 | ||||||
El Macho | Ênio Torresan Jr. | Traditional animation | ||||
O Natal de Todos Nós | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1994 | ||||||
Rocky & Hudson | Otto Guerra | Traditional animation | Based on the comic strip characters created by Adão Iturrusgarai. Brazil's first adult-oriented animated film. [5] | |||
1995 | ||||||
Smilingüido em Moda Amarela | Marcia d'Haese | Traditional animation | First animation based on a Christian media character and also the first animation based on Smilingüido. | |||
Gaín Pañan e a Origem da Pupunheira | Luiz Fernando Perazzo | Traditional animation | Short Film; First ethnographic animation made in Brazil by a public university, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | |||
1996 | ||||||
Cassiopéia | Clóvis Veira | CG animation | Brazil's first CG feature-length film. [5] | |||
Estrela de Oito Pontas | Marcos Magalhães | Documentary/Traditional animation | Short Film made with the drawings of the psychiatric patient Fernando Diniz, Special Jury Prize in Gramado, 1996 | |||
Turma da Mônica em Quadro a Quadro | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1997 | ||||||
Videogibi Turma da Mônica: O Mônico | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1998 | ||||||
Castelos de Vento | Tanya Anaya | Traditional animation | ||||
Os Melhores Amantes Bebem Café | Wilson Lazzaretti and Maurício Squarisi | Traditional animation | Short Film about the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 | |||
Videogibi Turma da Mônica: O Plano Sangrento | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
Videogibi Turma da Mônica: O Estranho Soro do Doutor X | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | ||||
1999 | ||||||
Deus é Pai | Allan Sieber | Traditional animation | Short Film Winner of the Competitive Screening at the Gramado Film Festival in 1999 and Best Brazilian Animation at Anima-Mundi Carioca in 1999 | |||
Videogibi Turma da Mônica: A Ilha Misteriosa | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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2001 | ||||||
Onde Andará Petrucio Felker? | Allan Sieber | Traditional animation | ||||
The Happy Cricket | Walbercy Ribas | Traditional animation | ||||
2002 | ||||||
Smilinguido em A Invasão | Dieter Fuchs | Traditional animation | ||||
A Traça Teca | Diego M. Doimo | Live-action/animated film | ||||
2003 | ||||||
Juro que Vi: O Curupira | Humberto Avelar | Traditional animation | First film in the Juro que Vi series. | |||
2004 | ||||||
Cine Gibi: O Filme | José Márcio Nicosi | Live-action/animated film | Compilation of episodes based on Monica and Friends comics and being the first in the Cine Gibi series and the only one to have a theatrical debut. Also being the only one in the series to present 2D animation with live action. | |||
Juro que Vi: O Boto | Humberto Avelar | Traditional animation | ||||
Juro que Vi: Iara | Sergio Glenes | Traditional animation | ||||
2005 | ||||||
Cine Gibi 2 | Mauricio de Sousa | Traditional animation | Compilation. Released direct-to-video. Last movie to contain an animated episode focused on Chuck Billy 'n' Folks . | |||
Xuxinha e Guto contra os Monstros do Espaço | Clewerson Saremba and Moacyr Góes | Live-action/animated film | Based on the media character Xuxinha and part of the Xuxa movie series. | |||
Historietas Assombradas (para Crianças Malcriadas) | Victor-Hugo Borges | Stop motion/CG animation | This animated short served as inspiration for the animated series of the same name that premiered on Cartoon Network in 2013. | |||
2006 | ||||||
Juro que Vi: Matinta Perera | Humberto Avelar | Traditional animation | ||||
Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll | Otto Guerra | Traditional animation | Second adult animated feature film. Based on the comic strip created by Angeli. | |||
The Little Cars in the Great Race | Cristiano Valente | CG animation | Released directly to video, it was the first Video Brinquedo film infamously known for being a mockbuster of Pixar's Cars. It's the first release in The Little Cars series that spun off an animated series also released direct-to-video in the following volumes. | |||
2007 | ||||||
Brichos | Paulo Munhoz | Traditional animation | First film in the Brichos franchise. | |||
Garoto Cósmico | Alê Abreu | Traditional animation | ||||
Uma Aventura no Tempo | Maurício de Sousa | Flash animation | Second animated film based on Monica and Friends that is not a compilation of episodes adapted from the comics. Also the first animated media based on Monica and Friends to be animated in flash animation. | |||
Ratatoing | Vídeo Brinquedo | CG animation | ||||
Little Bee | Vídeo Brinquedo | CG animation | ||||
Gladiformers | Marco Alemar | CG animation | ||||
2008 | ||||||
Dossiê Rê Bordosa | Cesar Cabral | Stop-motion | Animated short based in the comic strip character created by Angeli | |||
Calango Lengo - Morte e Vida Sem Ver Água | Fernando Miller | Traditional animation | ||||
Cine Gibi 3 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | First in the Cine Gibi series to be animated in flash animation. | |||
The Little Panda Fighter | Vídeo Brinquedo | CG animation | ||||
Gladiformers 2 | Marco Alemar | CG animation | ||||
BR Futebol | Marco Alemar | CG animation | Known for being the only original animated film produced by Vídeo Brinquedo. | |||
2009 | ||||||
Belowars | Paulo Munhoz | Traditional animation | ||||
Cine Gibi 4 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs | Walbercy Ribas and Rafael Ribas | CG animation | ||||
Josué e o Pé de Macaxeira | Diogo Viegas | Traditional animation | ||||
Juro que Vi: O Saci | Humberto Avelar | Traditional animation | ||||
Little & Big Monsters | Vídeo Brinquedo | CG animation | ||||
What's UP: Balloon to the Rescue! | Vídeo Brinquedo | CG animation |
Title | Director | Genre | Notes | |||
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2010 | ||||||
Cine Gibi 5 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
2011 | ||||||
Brasil Animado | Mariana Caltabiano | Live-action/animated film | First Brazilian movie completely produced with 3D technology. [6] | |||
2012 | ||||||
31 minutos, la película | Álvaro Díaz and Pedro Peirano | Puppetry | Co-production with Chile and Spain. | |||
Brichos - A Floresta é Nossa | Paulo Munhoz | Traditional animation | Second film in the Brichos franchise. | |||
Peixonauta - Agente Secreto da O.S.T.R.A. | Célia Catunda and Kiko Mistrorigo | Traditional animation | Compilation | |||
Cine Gibi 6 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
2013 | ||||||
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury | Luiz Bolognesi | Traditional animation | ||||
Até que a Sbónia nos Separe | Otto Guerra, Ennio Torresan Jr | Traditional animation | ||||
Worms | Paolo Conti, Arthur Nunes | Stop motion | First Brazilian stop-motion animated film | |||
2014 | ||||||
The Boy and The World | Alê Abreu | Traditional animation | ||||
Cine Gibi 7 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
The Adventures of the Red Airplane | Frederico Pinto and José Maia | Traditional animation | ||||
Guida | Rosana Urbes | Traditional animation | [7] | |||
História Antes de Uma História | Wilson Lazaretti | Traditional animation | ||||
2015 | ||||||
As Aventuras do Pequeno Colombo | Rodrigo Gava | Flash animation | ||||
Cine Gibi 8 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
Até a China | Marcelo Fabri Marão | Traditional animation | ||||
2016 | ||||||
Cine Gibi 9 | Mauricio de Sousa | Flash animation | Compilation | |||
O Projeto do Meu Pai | Rosaria Moreira | Flash animation | ||||
2017 | ||||||
GadgetGang in Outer Space | Ale McHaddo | CG animation | ||||
Lino: An Adventure of Nine Lives | Rafael Ribas | CG animation | ||||
Historietas Assombradas: O Filme | Victor-Hugo Borges | Flash animation | Television film based in the animated series Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids | |||
2018 | ||||||
Peixonauta - O Filme | Célia Catunda and Kiko Mistrorigo | Flash animation | ||||
Tito e os Pássaros | Gabriel Bitar, Gustavo Steinberg and André Catoto | Traditional animation | ||||
A Cidade dos Piratas | Otto Guerra | Traditional animation | ||||
Guaxuma | Nara Normande | Mixed Techniques | Won several awards including Best Animation at SXSW and Best International Short at Palm Springs | |||
2019 | ||||||
CARNE | Camila Kater | Mixed Techniques | CARNE was selected in more than 250 festivals (Locarno, Annecy and TIFF), received more than 95 awards worldwide, was qualified for the 2021 Oscar®, EFA Academy Awards and shortlisted for Goya |
2020 | ||||||
Os Under-Undergrounds, O Começo | Nelson Botter Jr. | Flash animation | Compilation with episodes of the first season of Os Under-Undergrounds | |||
Uma Noite Antes do Natal | Nelson Botter Jr. | Flash animation | TV special based in the animated series The Amazing Professor Ambrosius´ Mansion | |||
Napo [8] | Gustavo Ribeiro | CG animation | Animated Short Awarded at 20 Festivals | |||
The Red Scroll | Nelson Botter Jr. | Flash animation | Premiered in Brazil in 2021. | |||
Nahuel and the Magic Book | Germán Acuña | Traditional animation | Co-production with Chile. Premiered in Brazil in 2024. | |||
2021 | ||||||
Bob Cuspe – We Don't Like People | Cesar Cabral | Stop-motion | Based in the comic strip character created by Angeli. Spiritual successor to the 2008 short film Dossiê Rê Bordosa | |||
2022 | ||||||
Tarsilinha | Célia Catunda and Kiko Mistrorigo | CG animation | ||||
My Big Big Friend - The Movie | Andrés Lieban | Flash animation | Based in the animated series My Big Big Friend | |||
Trunk Train: The Movie [9] | Zé Brandão | Flash animation | Based in the animated series Trunk Train | |||
Meu Tio José | Ducca Rios | Flash animation | ||||
2023 | ||||||
Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook | Artur Costa, Carlos Daniel, Guilherme Fiúza e Rodrigo Guimarães | Flash animation | ||||
Perlimps | Alê Abreu | Traditional animation | ||||
Brichos 3 - Megavírus | Paulo Munhoz | Traditional animation | Third film in the Brichos franchise. | |||
Placa-Mãe | Igor Bastos | Flash animation | Premiered in Brazil in 2024. | |||
2024 | ||||||
Bizarros Peixes das Fossas Abissais [10] | Marcelo Fabri Marão | Traditional animation | ||||
Teca e Tuti: uma Noite na Biblioteca | Tiago M. A. Lima and Eduardo Perdido | Stop-motion/Live-action | Based in the 2002 short film A Traça Teca | |||
Noah's Ark | Alois Di Leo and Sérgio Machado | CG animation |
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