Pressed for Time: O Mistere Do Samba

Jan. 28, 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. (at Canal St.), 212-601- 1000; 7, $12.

Samba is the shuffling beating heart of Rio de Janeiro, the soundtrack of long hot nights that don’t end until 4 a.m. This film, part of the Cinema Tropical festival, follows the velha guarda, the old timers, of the Portele samba school, one of Rio’s best, and allows a glimpse into a musical landscape as remote from New York’s cliquey CMJ-y apartheid as possible.

Bottom Line: A new world is possible. And it is in Brazil.