Petrus Cariry

Directing

Petrus Cariry

Born

1977-12-28 (48)

Place of birth

Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

Born in Brazil in 1977, Petrus Cariry directed his first feature film in 2007, the award-winning film “The Grain”, which started the trilogy of death, followed by “Mother and Daughter” (2011) and “Clarisse” (2015) that together won more than 200 awards at national and international film festivals. In 2018 he released “The Boat”, his first feature film after the death trilogy. In 2019, Petrus released the documentary "The Welles Raft" directed in collaboration with Firmino Holanda. Petrus Cariry films have been shown at important film festivals such as Nantes (3 Continents), India (IFFI), Toulouse, Mar Del Plata, Vina Del Mar, Habana, Miami and Oldenburg.

Known for

Clarisse or Something About Us poster
4.4

The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.

Clarisse or Something About Us

2015

The Grain poster
7.0

The elderly Perpetua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.

The Grain

2007

The Welles Raft poster
NR

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.

The Welles Raft

2022

Cidadão Jacaré poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cidadão Jacaré

2005

Dos Restos e Das Solidões poster
8.0

In the interior of the Inhamuns, the driest and poorest piece of land in Ceará, the ghost town of Cococi, among ruins and neglect, is a kind of living museum from immemorial times. In the middle of the deep caatinga, wandering among the ruins and the shadows, lives Dona Laura, 70 years old, brooding over memories and pain.

Dos Restos e Das Solidões

2006

Heavier Is the Sky poster
7.4

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.

Heavier Is the Sky

2023

Behind the camera

Clarisse or Something About Us poster
4.4

The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.

Clarisse or Something About Us

2015

Clarisse or Something About Us poster
4.4

The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.

Clarisse or Something About Us

2015

The Grain poster
7.0

The elderly Perpetua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.

The Grain

2007

The Grain poster
7.0

The elderly Perpetua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.

The Grain

2007

The Welles Raft poster
NR

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.

The Welles Raft

2022

Cidadão Jacaré poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cidadão Jacaré

2005

Dos Restos e Das Solidões poster
8.0

In the interior of the Inhamuns, the driest and poorest piece of land in Ceará, the ghost town of Cococi, among ruins and neglect, is a kind of living museum from immemorial times. In the middle of the deep caatinga, wandering among the ruins and the shadows, lives Dona Laura, 70 years old, brooding over memories and pain.

Dos Restos e Das Solidões

2006

Heavier Is the Sky poster
7.4

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.

Heavier Is the Sky

2023

Heavier Is the Sky poster
7.4

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.

Heavier Is the Sky

2023

The Boat poster
5.4

In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.

The Boat

2018

The Boat poster
5.4

In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.

The Boat

2018

Reisado Miudim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Reisado Miudim

2008

Mother and Daughter poster
10.0

After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.

Mother and Daughter

2012

Mother and Daughter poster
10.0

After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.

Mother and Daughter

2012

Siri-Ará poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Siri-Ará

2008

A Praia do Fim do Mundo poster
10.0

Young Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence suffers from the advance of the sea levels. The daughter, an environmentalist, plans to move elsewhere, but the mother wants to stay in town. They need to find a solution together.

A Praia do Fim do Mundo

2021

A Praia do Fim do Mundo poster
10.0

Young Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence suffers from the advance of the sea levels. The daughter, an environmentalist, plans to move elsewhere, but the mother wants to stay in town. They need to find a solution together.

A Praia do Fim do Mundo

2021

Foi um Tempo de Poesia poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Foi um Tempo de Poesia

2021

Foi um Tempo de Poesia poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Foi um Tempo de Poesia

2021

O Som do Tempo poster
7.5

The sertão is everywhere, the sertão is within us. The concrete advances against Dona Maria, but she moves forward, calmly in the world.

O Som do Tempo

2010

O Som do Tempo poster
7.5

The sertão is everywhere, the sertão is within us. The concrete advances against Dona Maria, but she moves forward, calmly in the world.

O Som do Tempo

2010

A Velha e o Mar poster
7.5

Dona Alzira is an old lady who lives on an old abandoned bridge and survives from her fishing. Gradually she reveals her past and present history while waiting for the future.

A Velha e o Mar

2005

A Velha e o Mar poster
7.5

Dona Alzira is an old lady who lives on an old abandoned bridge and survives from her fishing. Gradually she reveals her past and present history while waiting for the future.

A Velha e o Mar

2005

Uma Jangada Chamada Bruna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Uma Jangada Chamada Bruna

2004

Quando o Vento Sopra poster
NR

A man in crisis and an old super-8 movie with footage from his childhood. A paper picker and his son walk the streets in search of survival. The film traces a poetic trajectory between the impermanence of things and affective memory.

Quando o Vento Sopra

2008

A Ordem dos Penitentes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Ordem dos Penitentes

2002

A Ordem dos Penitentes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Ordem dos Penitentes

2002

A Montanha Mágica poster
NR

From having so much fun up there, he fell, fifteen meters, he ran out of air! How far does the truth go? How far does the imagination go? I would like to remember a little more. A film about childhood.

A Montanha Mágica

2009

A Montanha Mágica poster
NR

From having so much fun up there, he fell, fifteen meters, he ran out of air! How far does the truth go? How far does the imagination go? I would like to remember a little more. A film about childhood.

A Montanha Mágica

2009