Thaís de Almeida Prado

Directing

Thaís de Almeida Prado

Born

1981-03-15 (45)

Place of birth

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazi

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Thais de Almeida Prado is a filmmaker, scriptwriter, multidisciplinary artist and actress. Thais' work permeates the interdisciplinary boundaries between cinema, and other arts, often in collaboration with other artists.  Thais is one of the Talents of Projeto Paradiso, participated at TFL Next Comedy (Torino, Italy); Panorama Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Doc.Lisboa Arché Lab (Lisbon, Portugal), Serie Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Talents BA (Buenos Aires, Argentine). Thaís received the "Special Arché Jury Award, for the best project in writing and development stage" to "The Brazilwood Women", a film project that explores the desire on canvas. As part of "As Mulheres do Pau-Brasil’s" research Thais d…

Known for

Noturnos poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Noturnos

2020

Second Half poster
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After theirs father's death, Carl and Ana decide to go to Germany to rescue his unknown story. There, not only will they discover familiar tracks, they will confront and recognize themselves, to move forward in their lives.

Second Half

2019

The Blue Flower of Novalis poster
5.8

Marcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and gay hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.

The Blue Flower of Novalis

2018

Nowhere poster
NR

The film is a poetic testimony of these women's relationship with their city: being foreigners, discovering their roots, trying to create art, experiencing urban violence, dealing with space, architecture and movement.

Nowhere

2021

Cucumber/Knife poster
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Joana, a non-binary person with a vagina, meets Xtopher, an effeminate gay man, in the FKK area of a Berlin lake. Then, they decide to go to the cruising area together, where they experience new sensations.

Cucumber/Knife

2024

Fakir poster
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The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistance championships and the great public presence, including politicians and government officials. Fakir spans current footage from contemporary artists who keep this art alive in performances and shows.

Fakir

2019

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Nowhere poster
NR

The film is a poetic testimony of these women's relationship with their city: being foreigners, discovering their roots, trying to create art, experiencing urban violence, dealing with space, architecture and movement.

Nowhere

2021

Cucumber/Knife poster
NR

Joana, a non-binary person with a vagina, meets Xtopher, an effeminate gay man, in the FKK area of a Berlin lake. Then, they decide to go to the cruising area together, where they experience new sensations.

Cucumber/Knife

2024

Unlearning to Sleep poster
4.8

Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.

Unlearning to Sleep

2021

Threesome poster
NR

T H R E E S O M E is a collaborative film performance developed during the confinement between John Herman (Cologne, Germany), Thaís Almeida Prado aka Filmes de Infiltração (São Paulo, Brazil) and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artisT (Kumasi, Ghana).

Threesome

2020

Joy Is the Acid Test poster
NR

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.

Joy Is the Acid Test

2023

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos? poster
NR

From a simple question, we travel through futuristic imaginaries. a game, an experiment. Cats, children, extemporaneous beings all in correlation in this short film directed by Thais de Almeida Prado and Fernanda Sanchez Valdivieso. Cactus: generally succulent and edible. large flowers, nocturnal flowering, pollinated by insects, moths, bats. wide anatomical adaptation. dry and hot environments. deserts. semi-arid, caatingas, cerrados. dimorphic branches, reduced leaves, photosynthetic. certain species develop ephemeral leaves, which last for a short period of time while a new bud is still in its early stages of development. psychoactive agents. ruins of civilization.

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos?

2021

2010s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Nowhere poster
NR

The film is a poetic testimony of these women's relationship with their city: being foreigners, discovering their roots, trying to create art, experiencing urban violence, dealing with space, architecture and movement.

Nowhere

2021

Fakir poster
NR

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistance championships and the great public presence, including politicians and government officials. Fakir spans current footage from contemporary artists who keep this art alive in performances and shows.

Fakir

2019

The Brazilwood Women poster
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Thais, Nathalia, Julia and Tetembua decide to open “The Brazilwood Store”, a men’s escort company as a solution to womxn's desires in search of casual sex.

The Brazilwood Women

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The Brazilwood Women poster
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Thais, Nathalia, Julia and Tetembua decide to open “The Brazilwood Store”, a men’s escort company as a solution to womxn's desires in search of casual sex.

The Brazilwood Women

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Empire poster
NR

The crown jewels of the empire rise and fall in this subversive and highly symbolic satirical short.

Empire

2023

Empire poster
NR

The crown jewels of the empire rise and fall in this subversive and highly symbolic satirical short.

Empire

2023

With My Dog-Eyes poster
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"Com Meus Olhos de Cão" (With My Dog-Eyes), is a "friction" film that mixes documentary elements from the life and work of the erudite composer Gilberto Mendes with fictional elements from the book Com Meus Olhos de Cão, by Hilda Hilst.

With My Dog-Eyes

2022

Real Man poster
6.5

A boy dreams of being a man like the ones he lusts for. Does the man he becomes live as he imagined?

Real Man

2023

B - Há Algo Errado com Charlie poster
NR

Terror. Horror. Terror. Humour.

B - Há Algo Errado com Charlie

2021

Minha Parte poster
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In December 2012 two filmmakers meet with the intention of making a film from two looks: her look at him and his look at her. He, a cisgender man; she, a person who defined herself as womxn-non-conforming.

Minha Parte

2022

Threesome poster
NR

T H R E E S O M E is a collaborative film performance developed during the confinement between John Herman (Cologne, Germany), Thaís Almeida Prado aka Filmes de Infiltração (São Paulo, Brazil) and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artisT (Kumasi, Ghana).

Threesome

2020

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos? poster
NR

From a simple question, we travel through futuristic imaginaries. a game, an experiment. Cats, children, extemporaneous beings all in correlation in this short film directed by Thais de Almeida Prado and Fernanda Sanchez Valdivieso. Cactus: generally succulent and edible. large flowers, nocturnal flowering, pollinated by insects, moths, bats. wide anatomical adaptation. dry and hot environments. deserts. semi-arid, caatingas, cerrados. dimorphic branches, reduced leaves, photosynthetic. certain species develop ephemeral leaves, which last for a short period of time while a new bud is still in its early stages of development. psychoactive agents. ruins of civilization.

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos?

2021

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos? poster
NR

From a simple question, we travel through futuristic imaginaries. a game, an experiment. Cats, children, extemporaneous beings all in correlation in this short film directed by Thais de Almeida Prado and Fernanda Sanchez Valdivieso. Cactus: generally succulent and edible. large flowers, nocturnal flowering, pollinated by insects, moths, bats. wide anatomical adaptation. dry and hot environments. deserts. semi-arid, caatingas, cerrados. dimorphic branches, reduced leaves, photosynthetic. certain species develop ephemeral leaves, which last for a short period of time while a new bud is still in its early stages of development. psychoactive agents. ruins of civilization.

Será Que no Futuro Seremos Todos Cactos?

2021