Cristiane Oliveira

Writing

Cristiane Oliveira

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Cristiane Oliveira is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her feature debut, Mulher do Pai (Brazil-Uruguay, 2016), premiered internationally at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival. The film screened at more than 20 festivals and received 20 awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival of Uruguay; three awards at the 2016 Rio Film Festival (Best Director, Cinematography, and Supporting Actress); Best Screenplay at Cinema Jove in Valencia, Spain; and the ABRACCINE Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival. During development, the project was selected for the Produire au Sud Lab in Nantes in 2010 and the 2011 Talent Project Market a…

Known for

She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge poster
NR

Porto 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

We Still Have the Deep Black Night poster
5.1

Karen 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

The First Death of Joana poster
4.3

Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.

The First Death of Joana

2021

Inventário de Imagens Perdidas poster
NR

Two 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

Until the Music Is Over poster
7.0

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendent family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaucha. Their trust in each other breaks down when Chiara finds out about Alfredo's life on the road and he realizes she hides something too. A turtle and decks of cards with put their fifty-year relationship to the test.

Until the Music Is Over

2023

Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros poster
2.8

In 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

Behind the camera

She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge poster
NR

Porto 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

She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge poster
NR

Porto 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

She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge poster
NR

Porto 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

We Still Have the Deep Black Night poster
5.1

Karen 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

The First Death of Joana poster
4.3

Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.

The First Death of Joana

2021

The First Death of Joana poster
4.3

Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.

The First Death of Joana

2021

The First Death of Joana poster
4.3

Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.

The First Death of Joana

2021

Inventário de Imagens Perdidas poster
NR

Two 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

Until the Music Is Over poster
7.0

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendent family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaucha. Their trust in each other breaks down when Chiara finds out about Alfredo's life on the road and he realizes she hides something too. A turtle and decks of cards with put their fifty-year relationship to the test.

Until the Music Is Over

2023

Until the Music Is Over poster
7.0

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendent family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaucha. Their trust in each other breaks down when Chiara finds out about Alfredo's life on the road and he realizes she hides something too. A turtle and decks of cards with put their fifty-year relationship to the test.

Until the Music Is Over

2023

Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros poster
2.8

In 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

A Violent Dose of Anything poster
4.5

Pedro 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

Gift poster
NR

Caio receives a birthday "gift" from his friends -- a night with call boy Fernando. During the three hours of their meeting, the two will go from an initial aversion to a mutual and almost improbable attraction, slowly discovering and confronting the reality of both.

Gift

2018

Bleak Sunday Afternoons poster
NR

Mônica 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

Bleak Sunday Afternoons poster
NR

Mônica 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

Nalu on the Border poster
6.9

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

Nalu on the Border

2017

Nalu on the Border poster
6.9

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

Nalu on the Border

2017

Nalu on the Border poster
6.9

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

Nalu on the Border

2017

Hóspedes poster
NR

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Hóspedes

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