Cristiano Burlan

Ulisses (2025)

O Condutor da Cabine (2023)

Antunes Filho, do Coração para o Olho (2023)

The Mother (2022)

A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she finds out the boy was killed by the police and his body is missing. This is the beginning of this woman's vertigi ...

Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso (2020)

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weav ...

Batalha (2019)

At the eastern end of the city of São Paulo, poetry is a reality. ...

A Political Movie (2019)

A Political Movie ...

Imaginário (2018)

Nelson Felix – Método Poético para Descontrole de Localidade (2018)

Elegy of a Crime (2018)

Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director's mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. "Elegy of a Crime" is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan's "Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Fac ...

Antes do Fim (2018)

Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she n ...

Estopô Balaio (2017)

No vazio da noite (2016)

Plagued by the insomnia thoughts that leads one man to a dizzying journey into the night, he keeps wandering the paths of a metropolis on a path of no return. The man travels into a journey from the verb to the dust in the São Paulo night. The question is ...

Hunger (2015)

Amador (2014)

Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice. ...

They Killed My Brother (2013)

Reconstructing the details of the death of his brother, Rafael Burlan da Silva, twelve years ago, the filmmaker Cristiano Burlan launches a personal journey that leads to the heart of a cycle of violence in the outskirts of São Paulo — like the neighbor ...

O Homem da Cabine (2008)

Between the light and the dark of the projection rooms, there is a professional little known by the cinema audience: the projectionist. Based on the microcosm of a projection room, the documentary records the routine of these workers, who have a long and l ...

Construção (2007)

The city of São Paulo in its continuous process of construction and deconstruction, seen from the microcosm of a construction site, its workers and as several machines in full activity. ...

Arid Hearts (2006)

A sensory journey that over the course of hours, passes through crises. The constant non-communicability, even so, conceals carnal desire by the two human beings. ...

The Destruction of Bernardet (2016)

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil's most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memor ...