Directing

Adler Paz

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Café, Pépi e Limão poster
5.0

A story of three teenagers on the slum of Salvador, Brazil. Café runs away from the interior because of a "family revenge" that persecutes him. Arriving in the capital, he tries to find her father, who is imprisoned in a local prison. Pépi lives on the outskirts, where she is raped by her stepfather and expelled from home by her own mother. Limão lives in a hole under a viaduct with Marta, who is very weak due to drug addiction. The three come together to survive, while the friendship grows between them. But the setbacks of everyday life end up leading them to different paths.

Café, Pépi e Limão

2025

No artwork available
10.0

In a bar in the historic district of Pelourinho in Salvador (Brazil), in the 50s, Mr Antero, the owner of the bar meets a stranger who transforms the atmosphere of the place into one of fear and anxiety.

Premonition

2011

Pênalti poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pênalti

2000

No artwork available
4.5

"Cães" proposes a reflection around the socio-cultural heritage of the brazillian land structure, specifically the northeastern sertão, in which it has its support, in a system of land concentration, in the hands of a minority represented by the old rural oligarchies.

Cães

2008

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano poster
8.5

A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. A retrospective of the community lifestyle adopted by its members and the influence inherited from singer João Gilberto.

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano

2011

No artwork available
6.5

Inspired in "Os Sertões" by Euclides da Cunha, this film tells the saga of the last survivors of the Canudos war.

Na Terra do Sol

2005

Behind the camera

Café, Pépi e Limão poster
5.0

A story of three teenagers on the slum of Salvador, Brazil. Café runs away from the interior because of a "family revenge" that persecutes him. Arriving in the capital, he tries to find her father, who is imprisoned in a local prison. Pépi lives on the outskirts, where she is raped by her stepfather and expelled from home by her own mother. Limão lives in a hole under a viaduct with Marta, who is very weak due to drug addiction. The three come together to survive, while the friendship grows between them. But the setbacks of everyday life end up leading them to different paths.

Café, Pépi e Limão

2025

No artwork available
10.0

In a bar in the historic district of Pelourinho in Salvador (Brazil), in the 50s, Mr Antero, the owner of the bar meets a stranger who transforms the atmosphere of the place into one of fear and anxiety.

Premonition

2011

Pênalti poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pênalti

2000

No artwork available
4.5

"Cães" proposes a reflection around the socio-cultural heritage of the brazillian land structure, specifically the northeastern sertão, in which it has its support, in a system of land concentration, in the hands of a minority represented by the old rural oligarchies.

Cães

2008

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano poster
8.5

A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. A retrospective of the community lifestyle adopted by its members and the influence inherited from singer João Gilberto.

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano

2011

No artwork available
6.5

Inspired in "Os Sertões" by Euclides da Cunha, this film tells the saga of the last survivors of the Canudos war.

Na Terra do Sol

2005

A Matriarca poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Matriarca

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Olhos de Cachoeira

2020