Gabriel Martins

Directing

Gabriel Martins

Born 1987-01-01 · Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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.

Acting credits

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

Amazing World Remix poster
3.0

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

Amazing World Remix

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

Movimento poster
5.5

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

Movimento

2020

The Son of a Bitch poster
NR

The quiet city of Veredas is home to Casa Rosa, a famous brothel in the backlands of Minas Gerais managed by Ismael's mother, known to everyone as O Filho da Puta. Tired of his life, the young man leaves with his dog towards the coast in search of the father he never knew. Along the way, he finds himself faced with situations that, at the same time as they transform him, insist on reminding him of the fate he is fleeing.

The Son of a Bitch

2026

Meu Amigo Mineiro poster
NR

"Gabito, I'm waiting for you to see my city. Get there. Vitim."

Meu Amigo Mineiro

2012

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock poster
NR

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

Gabriel Shaolin Mordock

2009

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

Behind the camera

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

Fifteen poster
3.8

Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.

Fifteen

2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filme de Sábado poster
6.0

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

Filme de Sábado

2009

When Here poster
NR

Travel through time without leaving your place.

When Here

2024

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

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

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

Meu Amigo Mineiro poster
NR

"Gabito, I'm waiting for you to see my city. Get there. Vitim."

Meu Amigo Mineiro

2012

Meu Amigo Mineiro poster
NR

"Gabito, I'm waiting for you to see my city. Get there. Vitim."

Meu Amigo Mineiro

2012

Alzheimer poster
NR

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

Alzheimer

2009