Production
Teta Maia
Acting credits
6.9Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.
Corisco & Dadá
1996
The story of a portraitist of northeastern Brazil and how his art resists time.
Retrato Pintado
2000
NRFollowing Alexander Taylor, a teacher in the slums of Kibuna, this is a reflection about the modern times, mixing social criticism and cinematic experimentation to reflect about the overconsumption of images, fake news and social media.
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
2019
NRAroeiras is a fictional city in the northeastern interior of Brazil where Genésio lives. Old, widowed, retired and childless, he fills his loneliness drinking and dreaming of the nostalgic heroism of cangaceiros (northeastern outlaws) and the love of Rosália. His friend Baltazar, a peasant leader, does not believe in myths of the past. He believes that organized political struggle is the only possible way to change things and he is looking for new ways to fight the powerful.
A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso
1993
Behind the camera
9.0When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Sertânia
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Capistrano no Quilo
2007
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Os Escravos de Jó
2020
7.5The 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
NRAroeiras is a fictional city in the northeastern interior of Brazil where Genésio lives. Old, widowed, retired and childless, he fills his loneliness drinking and dreaming of the nostalgic heroism of cangaceiros (northeastern outlaws) and the love of Rosália. His friend Baltazar, a peasant leader, does not believe in myths of the past. He believes that organized political struggle is the only possible way to change things and he is looking for new ways to fight the powerful.
A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso
1993