Personal Info
Birth date
1955-03-21 (70 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Glicério, São Paulo, Brazil
Also known as
Jair Messias Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro
Biography
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019. He served in the country's Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro, between 1991 and 2018. He was elected president as a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party, before leaving them to found the party Alliance for Brazil.
Filmography
Mentiras verdaderas
5.5
Overview:
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.Apocalypse in the Tropics
7.3
Overview:
When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader.Coronavirus, Explained
6.946
Overview:
In 2020, the world changed. This topical series examines the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts to combat it and ways to manage its mental health toll.I Am Greta
5.782
Overview:
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.The Edge of Democracy
7.649
Overview:
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
8.5
Overview:
This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.The Forum
7
Overview:
In times of rampant populism and increasing distrust of the elite, the filmmaker accompanies the 81-year-old founder of the controversial World Economic Forum over the period of one year in his efforts to implement his leitmotif: to improve the state of the world. Can the WEF contribute to solving global problems? Or is it rather an integral part of the problem?The Bolsonaro's Myth
NYR
Overview:
To understand the obsession with federal deputy and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and how his network of support is structured on the internet, VICE went to São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul to investigate its largest bases of support in the country.Endangered
6.333
Overview:
A sobering look at the erosion of democracy & freedom of the press in the United States and abroad.The crime behind the Amazon climate change crisis
NYR
Overview:
The battle against deforestation in President Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil is also a fight against criminal networks and corruption, drawing in politicians, militias and drugs gangs. The FT follows the fight as it cycles from the cities to the rainforest, and meets the indigenous people trying to save their landNoises From The Agora
NYR
Overview:
Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of Brazilian politics. The daily political debate in a small newsstand in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and the sound, visual and spatial noises of the contemporary agora.The Trial
7.5
Overview:
The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.Your Turn
7
Overview:
When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.Lower House
8.4
Overview:
During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff.Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
NYR
Overview:
As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought unusual situations and an unknown feeling of exile. As news from Brazil reaches the distance like rocks breaking their computer screens, blurring the line between what is personal and what is collective, the pair of friends share their bewilderment and try to find some resonance amid the overwhelming amount of information that floats the virtual space.Breaking Myths
7.9
Overview:
“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical far-right politician who can best be described as the Brazilian Donald Trump — and who is up for a second term this October. The story is told through the lens of the critically acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker and LGBTQ activist Fernando Grostein Andrade (“Abe” Sundance 19), who directed, wrote, and produced the feature alongside creative partner Fernando Siqueira as the first release under his production company in California, FilmSoul Studios.8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente
8
Overview:
The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and every one of the eight Presidents of Brazil who took office since the end of the military government, from José Sarney to Jair Bolsonaro.Cretinália
NYR
Overview:
Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
4
Overview:
Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.Republic of Evil Ants
7.5
Overview:
One of the greatest pests on the planet, the evil ants destroy the forest to protect their family. Memories of the covid-19 pandemic, eroded by ignorance and negationism. What's left in this great country of worms and viruses?Transe
NYR
Overview:
A threesome that takes place against the backdrop of Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Three young adults in a love triangle seek to understand the world and who they are on the brink of a shocking and highly-divisive election that puts the future of each one in check.Brazil: The Beef, Bibles and Bullets that Elected Bolsonaro
NYR
Overview:
When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president this fall, it was with the support of Brazil's most conservative forces: the Christian right, the military and the landowners. With a program against abortion and same-sex marriage but for traditional family structures, the right to carry weapons and an expanded exploitation of the Amazon, Brazil is moving towards an increasingly repressive policy where dissidents are labeled as terrorists and where military and police powers are extended.They Could Be Alive
10
Overview:
What would the pandemic have been like in Brazil if the government had used all the potential that the SUS (Brazilian Federal Health System) offers? What could the country's 300,000 health workers have done to combat the uncontrolled transmission of the virus? How many deaths would have been avoided if we had done contact tracing, mass testing and invested in effective prevention and awareness campaigns? How many children, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and brothers would have lost the most important people in their lives if the president of the republic had not bet on the strategy of intentional contamination to generate collective immunity, despising vaccines and betting on charlatanism (and corruption)?Uma Fakeada no Coração do Brasil
6
Overview:
The documentary follows the events behind the mysterious attack on presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on 6 September, 2018, when Adélio Bispo stabbed the candidate during a rally in Minas Gerais. Did he acted alone as everyone believes or a conspiracy involving people close to the politician were involved in order to get gain an election? Several questions are raised in this special report.Acting
TBADia 30 em Atos as Unknown
TBANoises From The Agora as Himself
TBAMais um Dia na Natureza as Self (archive footage)
2025A Colisão dos Destinos as Jair Bolsonaro
2025Apocalypse in the Tropics as Self
2024Transe as Himself (uncredited)
20238 de Janeiro: O Dia que Abalou o Brasil as Self
2022They Could Be Alive as Ele mesmo
2022Breaking Myths as Self (archive footage)
2022The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
2022Brasil, Ame-o ou Chore as Unknown
2022Endangered as Unknown
20218 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente as Unknown
2021Nem Tudo se Desfaz as Self
2021Uma Fakeada no Coração do Brasil as Himself (Archive footage)
2021Falácias as himself
2021Republic of Evil Ants as Himself
2020Sieged: The Press vs. Denialism as Jair Bolsonaro
2020Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde as Self
2020I Am Greta as Self (archive footage)
2020Cretinália as Self (archive footage)
2020Coronavirus, Explained (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2019S.O.S. Amazonas: Apokalypse im Regenwald as Self (archive footage) / (uncredited)
2019The Forum as Self
2019The crime behind the Amazon climate change crisis as himself
2019Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa as Self (archive footage)
2019Your Turn as Himself (archive footage)
2019yellow: distress as Jair Bolsonaro
2019Brazil: The Beef, Bibles and Bullets that Elected Bolsonaro as Self
2019Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers as Self (archive footage)
2019The Edge of Democracy as Self
2018Lower House as Himself
2018O Teatro das Tesouras (8 Episodes) as Ele mesmo
2018The Bolsonaro's Myth as Himself (archive footage)
2018360° (4 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2018The Trial as Self
2016Congresso Brasil Paralelo (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2016The Stranger in the House as Himself
2011Mentiras verdaderas (5 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)