Ana Carolina

Directing

Ana Carolina

Born

1943-09-27 (83)

Place of birth

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1943) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003. In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1982 film Heart and Guts was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker. She graduated in 1964 from University of São Paulo Med School. Several years later she went to a School of Physiotherapy, taking special interest in university politics. She also spent a few of her early years in a Renaissance ban…

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Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum poster
2.0

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum

2014

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum poster
2.0

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum

2014

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum poster
2.0

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum

2014

Três Desenhos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Três Desenhos

1970

Getúlio Vargas poster
4.9

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

Getúlio Vargas

1974

Getúlio Vargas poster
4.9

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

Getúlio Vargas

1974

Getúlio Vargas poster
4.9

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

Getúlio Vargas

1974

Amélia poster
8.6

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

Amélia

2000

Amélia poster
8.6

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

Amélia

2000

Di Cavalcanti poster
NR

Di Cavalcanti was the first Brazilian artist to truly capture the face of Brazil. He spent his life portraying the country with courage and originality. From the creation of Brazil’s first Modern Art Week in 1922 to the 1960s and 1970s, his work became a familiar presence in Brazilian homes, eventually reaching an international audience. His creativity, freedom, excesses, and suffering found expression in his paintings. Guided by pleasure and wisdom, Di experienced both pain and glory. Di is, indeed, Brazilian!

Di Cavalcanti

2026

Di Cavalcanti poster
NR

Di Cavalcanti was the first Brazilian artist to truly capture the face of Brazil. He spent his life portraying the country with courage and originality. From the creation of Brazil’s first Modern Art Week in 1922 to the 1960s and 1970s, his work became a familiar presence in Brazilian homes, eventually reaching an international audience. His creativity, freedom, excesses, and suffering found expression in his paintings. Guided by pleasure and wisdom, Di experienced both pain and glory. Di is, indeed, Brazilian!

Di Cavalcanti

2026

Sea of Roses poster
7.3

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

Sea of Roses

1977

Sea of Roses poster
7.3

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

Sea of Roses

1977

Sea of Roses poster
7.3

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

Sea of Roses

1977

Heart and Guts poster
6.4

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.

Heart and Guts

1982

Heart and Guts poster
6.4

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.

Heart and Guts

1982

After Eight... Forever poster
4.0

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

After Eight... Forever

1987

After Eight... Forever poster
4.0

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

After Eight... Forever

1987

Indústria poster
9.0

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

Indústria

1969

Indústria poster
9.0

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

Indústria

1969

SRTV - Nelson Pereira Dos Santos Saúda O Povo E Pede Passagem poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

SRTV - Nelson Pereira Dos Santos Saúda O Povo E Pede Passagem

1978

Endless Passions poster
NR

It’s 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore.

Endless Passions

2022

Endless Passions poster
NR

It’s 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore.

Endless Passions

2022

Endless Passions poster
NR

It’s 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore.

Endless Passions

2022

Monteiro Lobato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Monteiro Lobato

1971

Monteiro Lobato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Monteiro Lobato

1971

Gregório de Mattos poster
7.0

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.

Gregório de Mattos

2003

Gregório de Mattos poster
7.0

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.

Gregório de Mattos

2003

Anatomia do Espectador poster
NR

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

Anatomia do Espectador

1980

Anatomia do Espectador poster
NR

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

Anatomia do Espectador

1980

Pantanal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pantanal

1971

Lavra Dor poster
10.0

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Lavra Dor

1968

Lavra Dor poster
10.0

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Lavra Dor

1968

Lavra Dor poster
10.0

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Lavra Dor

1968