Aldemar Matias

Directing

Aldemar Matias

Place of birth

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Aldemar Matias (Manaus, 1985) is a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer. He studied Social Communication at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil; Documentary Directing at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba; and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Parente (2011), his documentary about HIV tests performed at Yanomami villages in the Amazon, was financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and acquired by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. When I Get Home (2013) received the awards for Film of the Year and Best Documentary at the Watersprite Festival in Cambridge. The Enemy (2015) was aw…

Known for

Behind the camera

Pés de Peixe poster
5.1

Guilherme, a young riverside dweller, is forced to participate in a local race to help his community improve their lives by purchasing a generator to overcome the lack of energy.

Pés de Peixe

2024

Pés de Peixe poster
5.1

Guilherme, a young riverside dweller, is forced to participate in a local race to help his community improve their lives by purchasing a generator to overcome the lack of energy.

Pés de Peixe

2024

No artwork available
NR

In a fumigation centre in Havana, Mayelín has the ungrateful task of fining citizens who infringe sanitary regulations. Apart from fighting dengue and disciplining her workers, she is, herself, under pressure from one of her supervisors. Mayelín must learn to find her place within a stressful and sometimes aggressive work environment.

The Enemy

2015

No artwork available
NR

In a fumigation centre in Havana, Mayelín has the ungrateful task of fining citizens who infringe sanitary regulations. Apart from fighting dengue and disciplining her workers, she is, herself, under pressure from one of her supervisors. Mayelín must learn to find her place within a stressful and sometimes aggressive work environment.

The Enemy

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Declare Seu Amor Delivery

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When I Get Home poster
NR

In downtown Havana, Tomás and Luis built a home in their own terms – Beatles' posters share their space with a pet chicken and a dog. Daily tasks generate a singular choreography between both men inside their own territories, introducing us the couple just days before their 28th anniversary.

When I Get Home

2014

No artwork available
NR

In a building in the south-central area of ​​Manaus, the most contrasting reactions are recorded during an earthquake felt by the building's residents. Meanwhile, the gardener Elizon describes in his own way the causes and possible consequences of the event.

Elizon's Prophecy

2008

Parente poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Parente

2011

On the Starting Line poster
4.8

A portrait about a Cuban family and Jenni, a professional 100 m sprinter…

On the Starting Line

2019

On the Starting Line poster
4.8

A portrait about a Cuban family and Jenni, a professional 100 m sprinter…

On the Starting Line

2019