
Directing
Sabrina Greve
Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil
Sabrina Greve is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. She created, wrote, and directed the series Tramas Cruzadas for Globoplay (2026), and wrote and directed the feature film O Porão da Rua do Grito (The Basement of Scream Street), which screened at the São Paulo International Film Festival, Fantaspoa, and Macabro, among other festivals. She also directed the feature As Aparências Enganam, produced by Coração da Selva alongside Luciano Patrick, and directed three episodes of the HBO Max series Além do Guarda-Roupa, where she also worked as lead cast coach. Her earlier directing credits include the TV film Irina (TV Cultura) and the short film Fucking Different São Paulo, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Greve holds a master's degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a degree in Film from FAAP. Before turning to directing, she built a thirty-year career as an actress, trained under Antunes Filho at the Centro de Pesquisa Teatral, and received 17 best actress awards at national and international festivals. She made her film acting debut in 2000, in Uma Vida em Segredo (A Hidden Life), directed by Suzana Amaral.
Acting credits
7.6When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.
Carandiru
2003
4.4The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.
Clarisse or Something About Us
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Almost Winter
2026
At age 15, Debora shares with Hamlet the angst and doubts of her adolescence.
Tudo o Que é Sólido Pode Derreter
2005
5.7After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Nina
2004
6.3To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.
Underground Game
2005
7.1Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Olga
2004
NRIris lives alone in a spacious apartment by the sea. The green horizon seems to distance it from the city in comfortable isolation. At nightfall, the place hosts known and unknown in a frantic party flow. Iris is the main attraction. But on a hungover morning, she finds a corpse in the living room. As in the distorted reflection of a crooked mirror, Iris feels repeating steps of her childhood friend, Tiara, a medical student who had run over a guy at the exit of a nightclub. After the incident, Tiara plunges into a spiral of self-pity, sentimental emptying and violence. The case is well known in town and Iris does not want to become another ghost in this dark repertoire of stories. In All the colors of the night, reality works as a dimension of imagination, memory and madness.
All the Colors of the Night
2015
5.8A young architect embarking upon his first major project is unexpectedly brought face to face with dark secrets from his ancestral past.
Obra
2014
5.0Marina Lenk is an experienced synchronized diver. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
Tinnitus
2023
NRIn this horror fable inspired by Hansel and Gretel, orphaned siblings Jonas and Rebecca live in an old mansion with their frail grandmother and a mysterious child hidden in the basement. Rebecca tries to change her life, but Jonas resists, haunted by the ghosts of the house.
The Basement of Scream Street
2025
NROpen City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.
Wherever You Are
2018
4.8A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.
Coffee Stains
2014
5.6Biela, a humble young woman, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her bourgeois cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
A Hidden Life
2001
5.5After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.
When I Was Alive
2014
NRLuis is an 8 year old boy. Dora, his nanny, passed away a few weeks ago. When Dora reappears hidden in Luis's closet, the boy must make great efforts to quench the nanny's hunger.
To Sleep Quietly
2011
8.0After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo, but gets involved in situations that distance him from his peaceful life.
Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
2002
5.3Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her pesonality.
Doppelgänger
2012
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
As Aparências Enganam
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NREleven filmmakers from São Paulo, Brazil, unleash a vibrant mix of voices in the fourth installment of producer Kristian Petersen's conceptual short-film series, which gives gay and lesbian filmmakers free reign to tell untold stories. Selections include Gustavo Vinagre's "Dykeland," about an all-girl rock band; Ricky Mastro's "Felizes Para Sempre," about a surprisingly happy marriage; and Joana Galvão's animated "Um Olhar."
Fucking Different São Paulo
2010
NRIn this horror fable inspired by Hansel and Gretel, orphaned siblings Jonas and Rebecca live in an old mansion with their frail grandmother and a mysterious child hidden in the basement. Rebecca tries to change her life, but Jonas resists, haunted by the ghosts of the house.
The Basement of Scream Street
2025
NRIn this horror fable inspired by Hansel and Gretel, orphaned siblings Jonas and Rebecca live in an old mansion with their frail grandmother and a mysterious child hidden in the basement. Rebecca tries to change her life, but Jonas resists, haunted by the ghosts of the house.
The Basement of Scream Street
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Irina
2012