
Directing
Flávia Castro
Born
1965-08-15 (61)
Place of birth
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Flávia Castro (15 of August of 1965, Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian filmmaker. At the age of five, she had to leave the country with his parents, exiled by the military regime. She lived in Chile, Argentina, Belgium and France, returning to Brazil in 1979 with Amnesty. Still in France worked as scriptwriter and assistant of direction. She made his directorial debut with the short film Each with His Every Qual (2006). Her first feature, Diário de una Busca, received the award for best documentary at the 2010 Rio Festival. She also directed one of the episodes of A Aula Vazia, a project coordinated by Gael García Bernal. Her fictional debut 'Deslembro' premiered at Venice Film Festival.
Known for
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O País do Cinema
2016
7.5Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.
Cyclone
2025
8.1After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Nise: The Heart of Madness
2016
NREleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.
The Empty Classroom
2015
9.2Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movies, diary and popular songs excerpts, the documentary reassesses the legacy of the dictatorial period of Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945). Through the comparison and analysis of these heterogeneous records, produced for different purposes, from political propaganda to family celebration, the film explores the several layers of the political web of the Estado Novo, exposing its external inspirational sources, functionality and contradictions.
Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45
2016
Camilla, an 8-year-old girl, sees a cardboard box fall from a "donkey without a tail" and tries to return it to its owner - a paper taster. The man gives her the old box. Upon arriving home, Camila finds a camera in the box - and then begins her adventure.
Cada Um Com Seu Cada Qual
2006
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Behind the camera
7.5Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.
Cyclone
2025
8.1After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Nise: The Heart of Madness
2016
NREleven award winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.
The Empty Classroom
2015
9.2Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movies, diary and popular songs excerpts, the documentary reassesses the legacy of the dictatorial period of Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945). Through the comparison and analysis of these heterogeneous records, produced for different purposes, from political propaganda to family celebration, the film explores the several layers of the political web of the Estado Novo, exposing its external inspirational sources, functionality and contradictions.
Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45
2016
Camilla, an 8-year-old girl, sees a cardboard box fall from a "donkey without a tail" and tries to return it to its owner - a paper taster. The man gives her the old box. Upon arriving home, Camila finds a camera in the box - and then begins her adventure.
Cada Um Com Seu Cada Qual
2006
6.2Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
Unremember
2019
6.2Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
Unremember
2019
6.2Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
Unremember
2019
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As Vitrines
2026
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As Vitrines
2026
7.5Porto Alegre, 5 October 1984, front page of a newspaper: "Extreme left-wing activist holds up the home of an ex-consul of Paraguay, then commits suicide". The extreme left-wing activist was the director's father. The ex-consul was an ex-nazi whose past her father was investigating.
Diário de Uma Busca
2011
