Directing
Noa Bressane
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Director Noa Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. Daughter of filmmaker Júlio Bressane, she worked with the filmmaker on several films. In O mandarim (1995), a biography of singer Mário Reis starring Fernando Eiras and with the director's very personal perspective, she is part of the cast as an actress. She also acts as an actress in Miramar (1997), a film about the formation of a young filmmaker starring João Rebello. Still with her father, Noa Bressane works as an assistant director on São Jerônimo (1998), a film about the desert monk in the 4th century who translates the Old Testament into Latin and later becomes a saint. São Jerônimo received awards for Best Director, Best A…
Known for
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Pitico: Hermes Ayres Azevedo (1881-1959) - Local Historian
2026
6.2Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
Miramar
1997
NRWe see the film, not the cinema; cinema remains hidden within the film. Cinema is the Phantom of the Opera. A movement and a moment of transition, the Phantom fades away with each opera. It disappears and then reemerges in another, and another, and another, and yet another opera.
Phantom of the Opera
2026
5.5A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Days of Nietzsche in Turin
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Quando Casa Maria Helena
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6.3Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Sermões
1989
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1990s · 2 titles
6.2Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
Miramar
1997
4.8The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
The Mandarin
1995
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pitico: Hermes Ayres Azevedo (1881-1959) - Local Historian
2026
NRWe see the film, not the cinema; cinema remains hidden within the film. Cinema is the Phantom of the Opera. A movement and a moment of transition, the Phantom fades away with each opera. It disappears and then reemerges in another, and another, and another, and yet another opera.
Phantom of the Opera
2026
5.5A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Days of Nietzsche in Turin
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Quando Casa Maria Helena
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NRBetween February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
Belair
2009
NRBetween February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
Belair
2009
NRBetween February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
Belair
2009