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Adirley Queirós

Adirley Queirós

Adirley QUEIRÓS was a professional footballer from the age of 16 to 25. I then studied film at the Universidade de Brasilia, from which I graduated in 2005. I became involved in the cultural life of Brazil and directed his first film Rap o canto da Ceilândia (2005), which won thirteen Brazilian awards. With his documentary A cidade é uma sound? (2010), Queirós participated in international film festivals such as World Cinema Amsterdam, Brazilian Hollywood film Festival and BAFICI in Argentina. White Out, Black In (2014) is his fifth film and fourth documentary, which participated in Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, Cartagena Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, Torino Film Festival and IFFR+.

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Movies Made By Adirley Queirós (9)

Dry Ground Burning (2023)

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine ...

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Once There Was Brasília (2017)

In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília's inauguration. But his ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia — a Black suburb of Brasi ...

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MST (2017)

MST: Landless Workers' Movement. Adirley Queiros accompanies the struggle and relays the demands. ...

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White Out, Black In (2014)

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in order to investigate the incident and prove that the fault lies in the repressive society. ...

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Meu Nome é Maninho (2014)

During the World Cup in Brasilia, we follow Maninho (Willian Jesus Vieira), a former professional soccer player who started working as a street vendor, selling water and national team flags. On the way to his new job, memories awaken a recent memory that i ...

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Um Homem que Voa: Nelson Prudêncio (2013)

The trajectory of Nelson Prudêncio, the black boy from Lins, who became an athlete only at the age of 20 and became one of the protagonists of the epic final of the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, the biggest that the sport has ever seen. ...

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Hood Movie: Is the City One Only? (2011)

The city of Brasilia hoped to become, from its very architecture, the expression of modern urban conception and an egalitarian society. However, neither the workers hired to pursue this project, nor the constant migratory flow that took place from the begi ...

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Dias de Greve (2009)

The struggle of a small group of blacksmiths trapped between keeping a long going strike with claims for better fees and the necessity of getting back to work when there's no money left for basic necessities. ...

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Rap, O Canto da Ceilândia (2005)

A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The film portrait the struggle of the lives of the rapers and makes a parallel with the violent building of the city designed to settle the outcast from Brasilia ...

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Movies Starring Adirley Queirós (3)

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

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Mobília em Casa – Móveis Coloniais de Acaju e a Cidade (2013)

The film promotes the meeting of two characters that could be opposites: Móveis Coloniais de Acaju, a band with an unusual sound and doomed to failure, and Brasília, the country's capital planned to suceed. ...

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A Meeting with Milton Santos (2006)

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the impor ...

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