Luiza Calagian

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

Behind the camera

Anba Dlo poster
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Nadia 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

Anba Dlo poster
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Nadia 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

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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

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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

Ether poster
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A 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

Ether poster
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A 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

Ether poster
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A 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

Ava Mocoi, The Twins poster
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On 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

Ava Mocoi, The Twins poster
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On 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

Piragui, the Owner of Fish poster
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Made 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