Cinema Novo is the movement that put Brazil on the world cinema map.

Other masters of the early Cinema Novo pursued different esthetic and political strategies.

There are two themes that run throughout "Cinema Novo and Beyond," linking its past to its present.

"Cinema Novo is the creative synthesis of Brazilian international popular cinema."

In Brazil, this tendency was carried out by its own new wave movement, the Cinema Novo.

Most film historians divide Cinema Novo into three sequential phases that differ in theme, style and subject matter.

"Because Cinema Novo is not a school, it has no established style," states Diegues.

"In Cinema Novo, expressive forms are necessarily personal and original without formal dogmas".

Films of the first phase represent the original motivation and goals of Cinema Novo.

At this time, filmmakers also started trying to make Cinema Novo more profitable.