
Writing
Caetano Gotardo
Born 1981-07-07 · Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Acting credits
6.2In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?
New Dubai
2014
NRA teacher awaits the arrival of his late students. Far away, a young couple wakes up surrounded by trees. It’s ten-fifteen in the morning.
Story of a Feather
2015
4.3Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grief, her persistent constipation problems and her adolescent transgender child (who disapproves of her job commission). At the condominium where Malu lives, some strange phenomena are unleashed in the home’s most private zone: the bathroom.
Bowels of Hell
2026
6.5Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Good Manners
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lost Media
—
NRSandra is pregnant and wants a girl. Her husband Marcos wants a soccer player.
Kicks
2016
NRWhen an ordinary man attests the fakeness among the broadcastings and screens entanglement, a mysterious digital voice emerges to show him which secrets are hidden behind the false truths.
Babelon
2021
5.5Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.
Bury Your Dead
2025
NRÍcaro and Diego, a couple in a date, lose their way in one of São Paulo’s rich neighborhoods. They try to escape this alien place, while a strange creature prowls.
Labyrinth
2023
2.3João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.
Your Bones and Your Eyes
2019
4.8Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.
Unlearning to Sleep
2021
NRA son and father must tell the mother the sad news.
Concert Number Three
2004
4.7Isabella, Jonata and Pedro are stuck at home for a weekend. Distressed by the state of the world and financial difficulties, the trio decides to go out on the streets of a dystopian São Paulo to relax, which allows them to meet many individuals in a similar situation, causing tragicomic and fantastic situations.
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter
2022
NRTwo men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.
The Japanese Boy
2009
NRThe image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
A Mountain in Motion
2025
The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.
Choclo
2015
NRGabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.
Bird Boy
2018
NRGet down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone.
Matéria
2013
5.5After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.
When I Was Alive
2014
6.1Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
A Stem
2007
2.0Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them.
The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty
2014
NREssay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.
Eva Nil, Cem Anos Sem Filmes
2009
3.0Tan needs to cry.
The Care One Takes of the Care Others Must Take of Themselves
2016
NRThis is Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra's second school project. The short film features members of the school's class in the cast. They are credited as Ju Chiquitita Rojas and Marco Mamma Mia Aurélio. The short features an appearance (in drawings) by Casal Medo, characters the directors would use again in other works.
Dancing Queen
1999
Behind the camera
2.0Singer that so speaks to the moon / my story is the same as yours / my love also ran away.
Let the Storm
2017
5.5Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.
Bury Your Dead
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Areia
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Areia
2008
2.3João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.
Your Bones and Your Eyes
2019
2.3João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.
Your Bones and Your Eyes
2019
6.4After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
The Silence of the Sky
2016
NRI saw leaves that were moving. I thought: "It's a bird in its nest". I separated the leaves and looked; but there was no bird. The leaves continued to move. As I ran, faster and faster, I screamed. What moved the leaves? What moves my heart, my legs?
Os Barcos
2012
Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.
The Open Diary of R.
2003
Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.
The Open Diary of R.
2003
4.6The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
All the Dead Ones
2020
4.6The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
All the Dead Ones
2020
An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.
Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)
2011
NRTwo men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.
The Japanese Boy
2009
NRTwo men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.
The Japanese Boy
2009
NRThe image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
A Mountain in Motion
2025
NRThe image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
A Mountain in Motion
2025
NRThe image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
A Mountain in Motion
2025
The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.
Choclo
2015
The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.
Choclo
2015
NRThe young Jimena searches for her identity. The film follows the life of the young woman with her mother and grandmother, white middle-class women, and the exchange of letters with her father, a foreign and black man, whom the young woman resembles. Seeking to free herself from the feeling of inadequacy, Jimena rewrites her family relationships and creates other ways of experiencing love, friendship and work ties. Through her eyes, the film considers questions about class, family, tradition, race and gender.
Faraway Song
2023
NRGet down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone.
Matéria
2013
6.8Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.
The Moving Creatures
2013
6.8Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.
The Moving Creatures
2013