Bruno Safadi

Victims of the Day (2025)

Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born. ...

For Lota (2024)

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been built ...

Rudder of Destiny (2023)

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation, their desires, the risks and phantoms of existence, the privilege of the wounded and of condemnation, traverse ...

Capitu and the Chapter (2023)

"If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?" Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of t ...

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023)

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that ...

Lilith (2022)

The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam's wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve's dou ...

Sofá (2019)

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay. ...

Seduction of the Flesh (2018)

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she's always observed by a large portion of raw meat. ...

Beduíno (2016)

A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire. They search for it through repeated and varied representations, in a setting of light where hope and desperation blend together. ...

Kid (2015)

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure. ...

The Mayor (2015)

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new country. ...

Love Film Festival (2014)

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a f ...

The End of an Age (2014)

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life. ...

The Harmonica's Howl (2013)

A young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future are established in this story of liquid love. ...

Belair (2009)

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom. ...

Meu Nome é Dindi (2008)

Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near bankruptcy and fights for survival. ...

Marlene de Sousa (2004)

Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now a prostitute). ...

A Star for Ioiô (2003)

Antônio wants to give his girlfriend, the prostitute Ioiô, a star. He meets a Salesman who claims he can get one for him, with certificate included! After many negotiations, Antônio finds out he has been taken in. ...

Na Idade da Imagem ou Projeção nas Cavernas (2002)

The End of an Age (2014)

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life. ...