
Acting
J.N. Canabarro
Born 1948-08-05 · Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
J.N. Canabarro began his career in the south of Brazil as an actor in a local theater company. Later, in his own theater company, he became a director, set designer and actor. At the beginning of the 1980s, he had his first experience in cinema, acting in a Super 8 production, "Tempo sem Glória". From then on, he dedicated himself to regional and national productions. He has also appeared as an actor in TV series such as TV Globo's "O Tempo e o Vento" in 2014 and GNT's "Animal" in 2014. He has extensive experience acting in films, most recently in the film "Casa vazia", which won an award at the Gramado Film Festival (Brazil) in 2019. His most recent production is the feature film O Velho Nepo, scheduled for release in 2025.
Acting credits
NRRaúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.
Empty House
2021
NRAfter a heated argument, silence fills the apartment. An elderly man tries to resume his normal activities, but anguish and regret prevent him from moving forward. Suddenly, life reveals itself as it truly is.
Fragment
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Contos Gauchescos
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Trilhos
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NRIn 1991, 67 families were settled in Brazil. It became one of the biggest clashes between the Landless Rural Workers Movement and the local elite. The doc revisits the history of the Liberdade no Futuro settlement, in these 30 years.
The Struggle for our Land
2022
NRIn a small town in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), close to the border with Uruguay, crimes against children occur and no one can solve them. The town makes a pact of silence about the events, believing them to be the result of some kind of curse, but this scenario changes abruptly when a documentary film crew goes to the place to decipher the mystery and ends up being involved in it.
What we don't talk about
2025
NRIn a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.
Old Nepo
2026
NRThe short film tells the story of Negro Facundo Sombra, a Farroupilha hero who is visited by his former commander, General Netto, who asks him to fight in the Paraguayan War. After five years, Sombra returns from the war and tries to return home, which turns out not to be easy.
The general's ghost
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Luz sobre o Rio
2025
5.0Brazil, 1964, military dictatorship. The young Juca lives in countryside and is influenced by an outsider Uruguayan smuggler. This man happens to live with the adolescent and transmit to him what he knows about life and social relations. Later, influenced by Paula's life force, a young left-wing activist, Juca, progressively joins political activism and then into clandestine direct-action groups.
Tempo Sem Glória
1984
7.0Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.
Lua de Outubro
2001
Behind the camera
NRAfter a heated argument, silence fills the apartment. An elderly man tries to resume his normal activities, but anguish and regret prevent him from moving forward. Suddenly, life reveals itself as it truly is.
Fragment
2025
NRIn 1991, 67 families were settled in Brazil. It became one of the biggest clashes between the Landless Rural Workers Movement and the local elite. The doc revisits the history of the Liberdade no Futuro settlement, in these 30 years.
The Struggle for our Land
2022
NRIn 1991, 67 families were settled in Brazil. It became one of the biggest clashes between the Landless Rural Workers Movement and the local elite. The doc revisits the history of the Liberdade no Futuro settlement, in these 30 years.
The Struggle for our Land
2022
NRIn a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.
Old Nepo
2026
NRIn a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.
Old Nepo
2026
NRIn a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.
Old Nepo
2026