In Brazil , the '' Cinema Novo '' movement created a particular way of making movies with critical and intellectual screenplays , a clearer photography related to the light of the outdoors in a tropical landscape , and a political message . The film '' The Given Word / Keeper of Promises '' ( 1962 ) by Anselmo Duarte , won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival , becoming the first ( and to date the only ) Brazilian film to achieve that feat . A year later , it also became the first Brazilian and South American film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . Director Glauber Rocha was the key figure of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement , famous for his trilogy of political films : '' Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol '' , '' Terra em Transe '' ( 1967 ) and '' O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro '' ( 1969 ) , for which he won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
Latin American cinema