
Acting
Yara de Novaes
Born 1966-08-25 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazi
Yara de Novaes is an actress, director and drama teacher based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Acting credits
NRSandra is an insurance broker staying at a hotel with her team for a training session led by a famous coach. When a mysterious phone call wakes her in her room, she realizes she is being watched by a foreign guest.
Sandra
2025
8.4Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
Malu
2024
NRBrazil 1970. Zé walks away from his upper-middle-class life and joins the resistance against the military regime. Together with his partner Bete, he abandons public life to fight the system, while also raising two kids. Based on the life of José Carlos Novais da Mata-Machado who died under torture at the age of 27, falsely accused of betraying his companions.
Zé
2023
Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his budget begins to fade, he changes to Black-and-White, then gradually down to 16mm, Super-8 and, in the end, to his despair, to the video format. With the help of Edna Marla, producer who is searching for the Holy Grail of a genuinely 100% Brazilian celluloid; Dona Martírio, his mother, former left-wing activist; Guará Rodrigues, an underground Brazilian movie star; and Lila Lessa, who stars in a 6 p.m. soap opera, they develop strategies and outlandish plans to win the insane battle of filmmaking in Brazil.
Samba Chanson
2002
Through the investigation of crimes committed by Brazilian politicians, a vigilante officer encounters an unlikely love and is faced with the recurring question of our imagination as a nation: is there anyone who is not corruptible in this country?
Justa
2020
Two siblings trying to pay their debts.
Rua da Amargura
2003
No synopsis available yet.
O Funeral
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6.6The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.
The Twelve Labours
2006
Loneliness in big cities, in encounters and disagreements, in the search for a great love.
Todos os dias são iguais
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6.6Young, intense and authentic, Dani just wants a normal life. However, since she was a child, she has been misaligned with her world.
And They Say I Am the Crazy One
2020

