Directing
Adler Paz
Known for
Directing
Credits
8 titles
Known for
5.0A 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pênalti
2000
"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
8.5A 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
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
5.0A 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pênalti
2000
"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
8.5A 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Matriarca
2024
No synopsis available yet.
Olhos de Cachoeira
2020
