Nash Laila

Acting

Nash Laila

Born

1987-04-10 (39)

Place of birth

Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Nash Laila (Recife, April 10, 1987) is a Brazilian actress and singer. With a theatrical background, she is best known for her work in cinema, gaining notoriety when she starred in the film Deserto Feliz (2007), for which she was praised by critics for her performance. She is the winner of several awards, including Candango for Best Supporting Actress at the Brasília Festival, in addition to being nominated for a Guarani Award.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Lilith poster
6.0

The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve’s double, eats the forbidden fruit, takes revenge on Adam, on God, and becomes the first woman to rise up against the ruling patriarchal system.

Lilith

2022

No Place poster
7.0

When Nego discovers that a cocoa farm where he lives and works will be sold, he needs to face not only the loss of his home and his job, but also the daily contact he has with the land he loves so much.

No Place

2020

Peixe Vivo poster
NR

Junior awaits the arrival of his float so he can finally get into the pool.

Peixe Vivo

2023

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina poster
5.0

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

2021

The Secret Lives of My Three Men poster
NR

Three men from the past cross into the present to reveal the invisible marks of Brazilian history. Between memory, fantasy, and poetry, The Secret Life of My Three Men proposes a reckoning with the violence that shaped us and the possibility of another future.

The Secret Lives of My Three Men

2026

Peixe Vivo e Outras Histórias poster
NR

In this unprecedented director's cut, the short films "Peixe Vivo" (fiction) and "Peixes Vivos" (documentary) merge into a single film, engaging with the theme of trans childhood.

Peixe Vivo e Outras Histórias

2024

Paloma poster
5.6

On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.

Paloma

2022

Sweet River poster
8.5

Under pressure from a back pain and being constantly short of money, Tiago (played by Okado do Canal) experiences an encounter that will reshape everything he knew about his own father, instilling an imminent crisis in his way of being. Set amid the outskirts of Olinda and the Recife middle class, the film contrasts both worlds without ignoring or overlooking the complexity of human relationships. In this universe where rap beats and community life thrive, we glimpse through the cracks of a disintegrating family model the construction of another masculinity.

Sweet River

2021

2010s · 7 titles

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