Sidney Santiago

Acting

Sidney Santiago

Born

1985-08-03 (41)

Place of birth

Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Sidney Santiago Kwanza (Guarujá, August 3, 1985) is a Brazilian actor, researcher, activist and theater director. Graduated in acting from the School of Dramatic Art of the University of São Paulo, he is a member and one of the founders of the theater group Os Crespos.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

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No synopsis available yet.

Menina Mulher da Pele Preta - Parte 1

2023

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro

2026

Not Dead poster
NR

The birth of a young black couple's first child brings with it happiness, but also agony. The newborn's father experiences and expresses his dilemmas regarding the arrival, coexistence and departure of his beloved firstborn.

Not Dead

2025

Dr. Gama poster
8.0

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Dr. Gama

2021

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você poster
5.0

In 1979, Brazilian singer Sidney Magal is at the peak of his career. On a TV show, he meets Magali and, enchanted by the young woman, decides to win her over. But, in order to do that, he will have to overcome the resistance of his manager, Jean Pierre, and the distrust of her family, friends and even Magali herself.

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você

2024

Knitting poster
3.0

Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.

Knitting

2021

O Pai da Rita poster
6.1

Roque and Pudim, composers from the old school of Vai-Vai, share a kitchnete, decades of friendship, love for their samba school and a doubt about the past: what happened to dancer Rita, their passion. The emergence of Ritinha, the dancer's daughter, threatens to collapse this great friendship.

O Pai da Rita

2022

Perfect Endings poster
4.1

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

Perfect Endings

2024

Stories of Samba poster
6.4

At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

Stories of Samba

2024

Família de Sorte poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Família de Sorte

2026

2010s · 8 titles

Reflections of a Blender poster
7.8

After receiving a new blade, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.

Reflections of a Blender

2010

A Comédia Divina poster
6.1

The Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century.

A Comédia Divina

2017

The Devil Lives Here poster
6.3

Three teenagers go visit a friend at his old farmhouse for the weekend. What they didn't expect was to be stuck in the middle of a centenary war between good and evil.

The Devil Lives Here

2016

Express Kidnapping poster
5.5

Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.

Express Kidnapping

2018

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia poster
5.5

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black, poor writer living in Brazilian society between monarchy's dying days and early years of republic with its countless social problems, which formed the basis of his many novels.

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia

2019

The Ballerina poster
4.8

Diamante is a gay boxer who stands out for his body control and fast leg movements. At night, he performs as a drag queen at a nightclub. His judgmental coach leaves him out of a boxing competition, but Diamante wants to be a champion.

The Ballerina

2016

The Great Victory poster
5.8

Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.

The Great Victory

2014

We're Together poster
4.8

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world around her.

We're Together

2011

2000s · 4 titles

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