
Directing
Gustavo Galvão
Place of birth
Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
20 titles
Gustavo Galvão is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. Over more than two decades, he has directed seven short films, released between 2002 and 2008, which screened internationally and were acquired by television broadcasters, platforms, and audience-development programs. Highlights include the award-winning A Vida ao Lado (2006) and A Minha Maneira de Estar Sozinho (2008), selected for the 22nd Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, France. He made his feature-film debut with Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros (2012), which received a FIPRESCI Jury Mention at the 31st International Film Festival of Uruguay and the Best Director Award at the 10th Maringá Film Festiv…
Known for
NRPorto Alegre, southern Brazil, 2019. Luiza, 27, receives a series of videos online from a woman she does not know. The images, filmed in Uruguay, are accompanied by the voice of a woman named Verónica, who recounts stories from her youth there. What at first seems to be a mistake gradually reveals a painful truth about Luiza’s family past: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as her late mother.
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
2026
5.1Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
2.8In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
2012
NRTwo women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.
Inventário de Imagens Perdidas
2025
2.3In a small elevator, a man and a woman prepare for a night out for two. And now? At night, anything can happen.
Uma Noite com Ela
2007
4.5Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
A Violent Dose of Anything
2013
Behind the camera
NRPorto Alegre, southern Brazil, 2019. Luiza, 27, receives a series of videos online from a woman she does not know. The images, filmed in Uruguay, are accompanied by the voice of a woman named Verónica, who recounts stories from her youth there. What at first seems to be a mistake gradually reveals a painful truth about Luiza’s family past: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as her late mother.
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
2026
NRPorto Alegre, southern Brazil, 2019. Luiza, 27, receives a series of videos online from a woman she does not know. The images, filmed in Uruguay, are accompanied by the voice of a woman named Verónica, who recounts stories from her youth there. What at first seems to be a mistake gradually reveals a painful truth about Luiza’s family past: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as her late mother.
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
2026
5.1Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
5.1Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
5.1Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
2.8In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
2012
2.8In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
2012
NRTwo women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.
Inventário de Imagens Perdidas
2025
NRTwo women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.
Inventário de Imagens Perdidas
2025
NRTwo women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.
Inventário de Imagens Perdidas
2025
2.3In a small elevator, a man and a woman prepare for a night out for two. And now? At night, anything can happen.
Uma Noite com Ela
2007
4.5Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
A Violent Dose of Anything
2013
4.5Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
A Violent Dose of Anything
2013
No synopsis available yet.
Danae
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NRMônica is an actress in a crisis triggered by the overexposure of her life as a celebrity. Young Kelly is not aware of that when she unsuccessfully tries to speak to Mônica as she is leaving a film shooting, in Brazil's countryside. Kelly will not give up and decides to try to meet her muse again.
Bleak Sunday Afternoons
2024
NRMônica is an actress in a crisis triggered by the overexposure of her life as a celebrity. Young Kelly is not aware of that when she unsuccessfully tries to speak to Mônica as she is leaving a film shooting, in Brazil's countryside. Kelly will not give up and decides to try to meet her muse again.
Bleak Sunday Afternoons
2024
NRMônica is an actress in a crisis triggered by the overexposure of her life as a celebrity. Young Kelly is not aware of that when she unsuccessfully tries to speak to Mônica as she is leaving a film shooting, in Brazil's countryside. Kelly will not give up and decides to try to meet her muse again.
Bleak Sunday Afternoons
2024
NRCecília is in love with her neighbor Ana, but Ana is trying to seduce Alberto. She ignores that he is about to commit suicide. In a day full of surprises, the three neighbors share the same experience: love.
A Vida ao Lado
2006
NRCecília is in love with her neighbor Ana, but Ana is trying to seduce Alberto. She ignores that he is about to commit suicide. In a day full of surprises, the three neighbors share the same experience: love.
A Vida ao Lado
2006
6.0No synopsis available yet.
A Minha Maneira de Estar Sozinho
2008
