Beto Brant

Directing

Beto Brant

Born

1964-05-23 (62)

Place of birth

Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Beto Brant (Jundiaí, May 23, 1964) is a Brazilian film director. He graduated in cinema from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado in 1987. Initially he was a video clip director. The most striking were the clips of Titãs, all from the album Titanomaquia: Nem sempre se pode ser Deus, Taxidermia, Será que é isso que eu necessito?

Known for

O Invasor poster
7.0

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

O Invasor

2002

Pitanga poster
5.6

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Pitanga

2016

Glauber, Claro poster
10.0

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.

Glauber, Claro

2020

Critic poster
7.9

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Critic

2008

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips poster
5.9

In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips

2011

Blue Blood poster
5.7

When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.

Blue Blood

2014

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

O Invasor poster
7.0

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

O Invasor

2002

O Invasor poster
7.0

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

O Invasor

2002

Pitanga poster
5.6

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Pitanga

2016

Pitanga poster
5.6

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Pitanga

2016

Pitanga poster
5.6

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Pitanga

2016

Glauber, Claro poster
10.0

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.

Glauber, Claro

2020

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips poster
5.9

In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips

2011

Blue Blood poster
5.7

When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.

Blue Blood

2014

Belly Up poster
5.6

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Belly Up

1997

Belly Up poster
5.6

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Belly Up

1997

Belly Up poster
5.6

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Belly Up

1997

Aurora poster
7.0

A man tells a story from his childhood, comparing it to his current experience.

Aurora

1987

Aurora poster
7.0

A man tells a story from his childhood, comparing it to his current experience.

Aurora

1987

Persona non grata poster
4.6

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

Persona non grata

2019

Dov'è Meneghetti? poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dov'è Meneghetti?

1989

Dov'è Meneghetti? poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dov'è Meneghetti?

1989

Stray Dog poster
5.6

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

Stray Dog

2007

Stray Dog poster
5.6

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

Stray Dog

2007

Friendly Fire poster
5.8

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Friendly Fire

1998

Friendly Fire poster
5.8

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Friendly Fire

1998

Invisible World poster
5.8

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Invisible World

2013

Night Fire poster
NR

Attempt to communicate with nature in reaction. Light as energy trigger, an image that shapes and rises in the air.

Night Fire

2021

Night Fire poster
NR

Attempt to communicate with nature in reaction. Light as energy trigger, an image that shapes and rises in the air.

Night Fire

2021

Biophobia poster
NR

André is a middle-aged rocker, decadent, alone and forgotten, who lives off the crumbs of his successful days. His mother is an award-winning writer, who lives as a recluse in a country house and commits suicide when the degenerative disease of old age begins to threaten her independence. André then goes to her house for a weekend, getting rid of the furniture and books, sharing them with friends and family. In an increasingly empty house, he is faced with his own inability to solidify himself as an adult, to escape his mother's shadow and find his place as a man and artist at forty years old. Surrounded by the bush on all sides, the protagonist's depression leads to increasing paranoia, intensified by alcohol. Lost in a scenario of delusions, memories and literature, André will face his internal and external nature, in a war where everyone nearby can be a victim.

Biophobia

—

Jó poster
10.0

God and Devil play on Jó's life.

Jó

1993

Delicate Crime poster
5.4

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

Delicate Crime

2005

Delicate Crime poster
5.4

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

Delicate Crime

2005

Praia do Silêncio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Praia do Silêncio

2025

O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg poster
3.4

Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."

O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg

2010

A Planta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Planta

2023

La Planta poster
NR

La Planta's team travels to Uruguay, the first country in Latin America to legalize cannabis, to meet characters who, through their experiences, tell us the trajectory of this plant.

La Planta

2020

La Planta poster
NR

La Planta's team travels to Uruguay, the first country in Latin America to legalize cannabis, to meet characters who, through their experiences, tell us the trajectory of this plant.

La Planta

2020

Negras Vozes - Tempos de Alakan poster
NR

For the past 14 years, the Ilú Obá de Min - Educação Cultura e Arte Negra promotes parades on the streets of São Paulo with its afro feminine band that celebrates themed carnivals. There’s always an homage to a black woman, embracing our history, fight and productions. In 2019, we sang “Black Voices” and spread “Alakan Time” - word that means alliances in Yoruba.

Negras Vozes - Tempos de Alakan

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Modo Ave

2013