
Directing
Luiza Calagian
Place of birth
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
10 titles
Luiza Calagian is a director and Director of Photography from São Paulo, Brazil. Has a degree in Social Sciences and Graduated from the Regular Course in Cinematography at the International School of Film and Television, EICTV - Cuba, where she also took the Masters in Creative Documentary. Her first short film, Ava Mocoi, premiered and was awarded at the 68th Int. Film Festival of Oberhausen, and the second, Anba Dlo, will premiere at the 75th Berlinale. Her work as a director and DOP has also been awarded at Ann Arbor, Kinoforum, and Concordia, and screened at festivals such as Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, Clermont-Ferrand, Biarritz, Guadalajara and Hong Kong, among others. Her first featur…
Known for
NRNadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
Anba Dlo
2025
On the outskirts of São Paulo city, a train cuts through an indigenous territory. Within this territory, Jera dreams, and in her dreams the city invades her village. In the same community, Rete, an animal that can move through different dimensions, remembers the history of an ancient river, swallowed by the city centuries ago.
Arrow For a Stone Heart
2026
NRA 96-year-old begins to talk about her spirituality, her view of life, and her perspective on what lies ahead. The granddaughter gently weaves moments and memories together.
Ether
2025
6.2On the conflictive border between Brazil and Paraguay a village of the Guarani indigenous people, surrounded by soy plantations, struggles to preserve their culture and territory. The arrival of twins and the prophecy that accompanies them mobilizes the community.
Ava Mocoi, The Twins
2023
NRMade in a partnership with a group of young women from the Tenote Porã village (São Paulo, Brazil), the film blends fiction and documentary in a narrative around Piragui, the owner of the fishes in the Guarani Mbya tradition.
Piragui, the Owner of Fish
2016
Behind the camera
NRNadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
Anba Dlo
2025
NRNadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
Anba Dlo
2025
On the outskirts of São Paulo city, a train cuts through an indigenous territory. Within this territory, Jera dreams, and in her dreams the city invades her village. In the same community, Rete, an animal that can move through different dimensions, remembers the history of an ancient river, swallowed by the city centuries ago.
Arrow For a Stone Heart
2026
On the outskirts of São Paulo city, a train cuts through an indigenous territory. Within this territory, Jera dreams, and in her dreams the city invades her village. In the same community, Rete, an animal that can move through different dimensions, remembers the history of an ancient river, swallowed by the city centuries ago.
Arrow For a Stone Heart
2026
NRA 96-year-old begins to talk about her spirituality, her view of life, and her perspective on what lies ahead. The granddaughter gently weaves moments and memories together.
Ether
2025
NRA 96-year-old begins to talk about her spirituality, her view of life, and her perspective on what lies ahead. The granddaughter gently weaves moments and memories together.
Ether
2025
NRA 96-year-old begins to talk about her spirituality, her view of life, and her perspective on what lies ahead. The granddaughter gently weaves moments and memories together.
Ether
2025
6.2On the conflictive border between Brazil and Paraguay a village of the Guarani indigenous people, surrounded by soy plantations, struggles to preserve their culture and territory. The arrival of twins and the prophecy that accompanies them mobilizes the community.
Ava Mocoi, The Twins
2023
6.2On the conflictive border between Brazil and Paraguay a village of the Guarani indigenous people, surrounded by soy plantations, struggles to preserve their culture and territory. The arrival of twins and the prophecy that accompanies them mobilizes the community.
Ava Mocoi, The Twins
2023
NRMade in a partnership with a group of young women from the Tenote Porã village (São Paulo, Brazil), the film blends fiction and documentary in a narrative around Piragui, the owner of the fishes in the Guarani Mbya tradition.
Piragui, the Owner of Fish
2016
