Kiko Goifman

Directing

Kiko Goifman

Born 1968-01-01 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

José Henrique Goifman (Belo Horizonte, 1968), known as Kiko Goifman, is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, multimedia artist, web artist, cultural producer and actor.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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2.2

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.

Periscópio

2015

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2.2

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.

Periscópio

2015

Bixa Travesty poster
7.0

A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.

Bixa Travesty

2019

Bixa Travesty poster
7.0

A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.

Bixa Travesty

2019

Bixa Travesty poster
7.0

A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.

Bixa Travesty

2019

Phedra poster
NR

A documentary about actress Phedra D Córdoba, Cuban and transsexual who lives in downtown São Paulo.

Phedra

2008

FilmeFobia poster
3.8

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.

FilmeFobia

2008

FilmeFobia poster
3.8

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.

FilmeFobia

2008

Amapô poster
7.0

Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexual who, still in his adolescence, became a transvestite; "Amapoa" is a term that comes from Yoruba and has become transvestite slang for women. The film has a brutal ending, revealing that the character suffered a strong violence. Homophobia. The approach leads to identification with the character and allows reflections on the intolerance of today's society.

Amapô

2008

Amapô poster
7.0

Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexual who, still in his adolescence, became a transvestite; "Amapoa" is a term that comes from Yoruba and has become transvestite slang for women. The film has a brutal ending, revealing that the character suffered a strong violence. Homophobia. The approach leads to identification with the character and allows reflections on the intolerance of today's society.

Amapô

2008

The Destruction of Bernardet poster
NR

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.

The Destruction of Bernardet

2016

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5.0

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

Legs Out

2012

Look at Me Again poster
NR

Syllvio Luccio is a transsexual male being transformed in the middle of the Brazilian dry lands, a region of high temperatures, poverty and where male’s virility is extreme.

Look at Me Again

2012

33 poster
7.0

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.

33

2002

A Turma da Limpeza poster
NR

This video, directed at children, merges clay animation and real images to show the various dimensions involving urban waste: trash and sweeping the streets, and household waste, composting and recycling of materials. The gang formed by Vassourinha, Dr. Basket and Mr. Truck, stimulate correct habits for children and the responsibility of these issues.

A Turma da Limpeza

1999

Acts of Men poster
5.0

ACTS OF MEN should have been a film about the daily lives of massacre survivors in Brazil. Everything was planned for us to start shooting in April 2005. But reality did not wait. On the last day of March, exactly one month before shooting was scheduled to begin, things changed: A terrible massacre took place in Baixada Fluminense, near the city of Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-nine people were killed by a death squad, the largest massacre in the history of Rio de Janeiro. The killers are extermination groups made up of policemen who work in the area, and who are involved in extortions, kidnapping, drug dealing and homicide. This has been going on since the 1950s, but it has never been as extreme as it is today

Acts of Men

2006

Sex and Cloister poster
1.0

A documentary made in Mexico City about a singular character and her feelings about sex and religion.

Sex and Cloister

2005

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Clones, bárbaros, replicantes

1994