Cacá Diegues, ícone do Cinema Novo, morre aos 84 anos no Rio

On Valentine's Day 2025, Brazil lost one of its most enduring cultural architects: Cacá Diegues, filmmaker and co-founder of Cinema Novo, died at eighty-four in Rio de Janeiro from complications following surgery. For more than half a century, he trained his camera on the margins of Brazilian society — on the enslaved, the forgotten, the transforming — insisting that cinema was not merely entertainment but a form of national conscience. His passing closes a chapter in the long story of how a country learns to see itself honestly.