Gabriel Martins

Directing

Gabriel Martins

Born

1987-01-01 (39)

Place of birth

Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Gabriel Martins, known in the cinema as Gabito, was born in the city of Contagem, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He studied Cinema, Video and Photography at Centro Universitário UNA. He debuted as editor and cinematographer of the short film Fantasmas (2010), directed by André Novais Oliveira. His career as a director began with the short film Meu Amigo Mineiro (2012). He achieved fame in the national cinematographic scene by leading one of the segments of the episodic feature O Nó do Diabo (2018) and being one of the directors of No Coração do Mundo (2019). He is one of the partners of the production company Filmes de Plastic.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

Fifteen poster
3.8

Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.

Fifteen

2014

Fantasmas poster
7.2

A man waits on the top of his house's roof with his friend. They are talking to each other until this friend realises something quite strange.

Fantasmas

2010

Mars One poster
7.3

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.

Mars One

2022

Mars One poster
7.3

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.

Mars One

2022

Mars One poster
7.3

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.

Mars One

2022

On Behalf of My Son poster
NR

Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds, evidence suggests that Wesley’s actions may have been suicidal. Vicentina then embarks on a journey to seek out the victims’ families and apologize, while confronting her own grief and uncertainty.

On Behalf of My Son

2026

On Behalf of My Son poster
NR

Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds, evidence suggests that Wesley’s actions may have been suicidal. Vicentina then embarks on a journey to seek out the victims’ families and apologize, while confronting her own grief and uncertainty.

On Behalf of My Son

2026

When Here poster
NR

Travel through time without leaving your place.

When Here

2024

Long Way Home poster
6.9

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.

Long Way Home

2019

In the Heart of the World poster
6.1

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

In the Heart of the World

2019

In the Heart of the World poster
6.1

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

In the Heart of the World

2019

Alemão poster
6.2

Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.

Alemão

2014

She Comes Back on Thursday poster
6.2

With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...

She Comes Back on Thursday

2016

The Devil's Knot poster
6.3

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.

The Devil's Knot

2018

The Devil's Knot poster
6.3

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.

The Devil's Knot

2018

Ataléia Street poster
5.0

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – awaits the return of electricity. Now, ten years later, the light tries to impose its place towards the shadows of memory.

Ataléia Street

2021

Movimento poster
5.5

Tereza, born during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, is being cared for by her parents Rimenna and Gabriel.

Movimento

2020

Movimento poster
5.5

Tereza, born during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, is being cared for by her parents Rimenna and Gabriel.

Movimento

2020

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides poster
5.0

Dona Sônia seeks revenge for the death of her only son.

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides

2010

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides poster
5.0

Dona Sônia seeks revenge for the death of her only son.

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides

2010

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides poster
5.0

Dona Sônia seeks revenge for the death of her only son.

Dona Sônia Pediu Uma Arma Para Seu Vizinho Alcides

2010

Aliança poster
NR

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. One of them decides to ask his girlfriend to marry him at sameday the other two learn she is cheating on him with her gym instructor

Aliança

2014

The Day I Met You poster
6.9

Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town’s school, where he works as a librarian. Waking up early is evermore difficult: something prevents him from maintaining his routine. One day, Zeca meets Louisa.

The Day I Met You

2024

Amazing World Remix poster
3.0

"At nature nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."

Amazing World Remix

2014

Amazing World Remix poster
3.0

"At nature nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."

Amazing World Remix

2014

Amazing World Remix poster
3.0

"At nature nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."

Amazing World Remix

2014

Alzheimer poster
NR

An elderly woman films what she doesn't want to forget.

Alzheimer

2009

Contagem poster
5.6

An event, four people and the city of Contagem.

Contagem

2010

Contagem poster
5.6

An event, four people and the city of Contagem.

Contagem

2010

Contagem poster
5.6

An event, four people and the city of Contagem.

Contagem

2010

O Último Episódio poster
9.0

Erik, a 13-year-old boy, has a platonic crush on Sheila and, to get closer to her, claims to have a tape at home with the legendary “last episode” of the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons. With the help of his friends, he seeks a way out of the mess he has gotten himself into, experiencing an intense coming-of-age story.

O Último Episódio

2025

Our Mother was an Actress poster
6.5

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Brazilian cinema in the 2010s.

Our Mother was an Actress

2023

Rapsódia Para o Homem Negro poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rapsódia Para o Homem Negro

2015

Rapsódia Para o Homem Negro poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rapsódia Para o Homem Negro

2015

Saturday Movie poster
5.5

It's Saturday morning and André has had an idea...

Saturday Movie

2009

At the End of the World poster
6.0

My meeting with the end of the world.

At the End of the World

2009

Nove Águas poster
NR

Brazil, 1930. Marcos and his family (descendants of slaves) left the Jequitinhonha Valley for the Mucuri Valley. Fleeing from the drought, hunger and violence in the countryside, the "quilombolas" sought a new territory to build their community. Decades later, when everything seems to be in peace, a huge construction company wants to build a dam in Marques' territory.

Nove Águas

2019

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock poster
NR

Mordock is a dog. Shaolin is a bricklayer. Gabriel is a filmmaker.

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock

2009

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock poster
NR

Mordock is a dog. Shaolin is a bricklayer. Gabriel is a filmmaker.

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock

2009

Nothing poster
7.0

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.

Nothing

2017