Caetano Gotardo

Bury Your Dead (2025)

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink o ...

Canção ao Longe (2023)

The young Jimena searches for her identity. The film follows the life of the young woman with her mother and grandmother, white middle-class women, and the exchange of letters with her father, a foreign and black man, whom the young woman resembles. Seekin ...

Unlearning to Sleep (2021)

Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lu ...

All the Dead Ones (2020)

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times th ...

Your Bones and Your Eyes (2019)

João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unkn ...

Good Manners (2017)

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child. ...

Let the Storm (2017)

Singer that so speaks to the moon / my story is the same as yours / my love also ran away. ...

The Silence of the Sky (2016)

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence. ...

Choclo (2015)

The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing. ...

Necropolis Symphony (2014)

In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of m ...

Desculpa, Dona Madama (2013)

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery. ...

Matéria (2013)

Get down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone. ...

The Moving Creatures (2013)

Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of pai ...

Sleeping Hammock (2013)

Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud. ...

Os Barcos (2012)

I saw leaves that were moving. I thought: "It's a bird in its nest". I separated the leaves and looked; but there was no bird. The leaves continued to move. As I ran, faster and faster, I screamed. What moved the leaves? What moves my heart, my legs? ...

Hard Labor (2011)

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity. ...

Neverquiet (Film of Wonders) (2011)

An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a 'letter ...

Aphasia (2011)

The Japanese Boy (2009)

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood. ...

Rosa e Benjamin (2009)

The city outside and the city within. Inside: a couple starting to grow old. Outside: a city in constant flux - new buildings, a noisy airport, a troubling new neighbor, gossip. Things that never change amid things that change too fast. The fragmented ever ...

Areia (2008)

A Stem (2007)

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm. ...

The White Sheet (2004)

A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son. ...

The Open Diary of R. (2003)

Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries. ...

Espera (2003)

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room. ...

Bowels of Hell (2026)

Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grief, her persistent constipation problems and her adolescent transgender child (who disapproves of her job commission). At the condominium where Malu lives, ...

Bury Your Dead (2025)

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink o ...

Labyrinth (2023)

Ícaro and Diego, a couple in a date, lose their way in one of São Paulo's rich neighborhoods. They try to escape this alien place, while a strange creature prowls. ...

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022)

Isabella, Jonata and Pedro are stuck at home for a weekend. Distressed by the state of the world and financial difficulties, the trio decides to go out on the streets of a dystopian São Paulo to relax, which allows them to meet many individuals in a simil ...

Unlearning to Sleep (2021)

Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lu ...

Babelon (2021)

When an ordinary man attests the fakeness among the broadcastings and screens entanglement, a mysterious digital voice emerges to show him which secrets are hidden behind the false truths. ...

Your Bones and Your Eyes (2019)

João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unkn ...

Bird Boy (2018)

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother. ...

Good Manners (2017)

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child. ...

Subybaya (2017)

Within me lives a silence. At night, he goes with his claws, hunting for something to scream. ...

The Care One Takes of the Care Others Must Take of Themselves (2016)

Tan needs to cry. ...

Kicks (2016)

Sandra is pregnant and wants a girl. Her husband Marcos wants a soccer player. ...

Story of a Feather (2015)

A teacher awaits the arrival of his late students. Far away, a young couple wakes up surrounded by trees. It's ten-fifteen in the morning. ...

Choclo (2015)

The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing. ...

The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty (2014)

Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them. ...

New Dubai (2014)

In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about ...

When I Was Alive (2014)

After 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 ...

Matéria (2013)

Get down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone. ...

The Japanese Boy (2009)

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood. ...

Eva Nil, Cem Anos Sem Filmes (2009)

Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema. ...

A Stem (2007)

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm. ...

Concert Number Three (2004)

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news. ...

Dancing Queen (1999)

This is Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra's second school project. The short film features members of the school's class in the cast. They are credited as Ju Chiquitita Rojas and Marco Mamma Mia Aurélio. The short features an appearance (in drawings) by Casal ...