Deborah Viegas

Look Closely at the Mountains (2025)

 "Look closely at the mountains!": the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil's years of dictatorhsip. Mining activities were destroying the environment in the state of Minas Gerais in the south west of the country. Through editi ...

Aurora (2025)

In the wake of a dream, João Vieira Torres sets off to find the children that his grandmother Aurora, a midwife, helped deliver. Through encounters with the living and the dead, he uncovers tragic destinies which reflect a structural history of violence a ...

Sofia Was (2024)

Sofia was forced to leave her home and is now homeless. The young woman spends her days wandering the alleys of the University of São Paulo campus, where she offers her services as a tattoo artist. One ethereal night, her wanderings mingle with memories o ...

It Is Night in America (2024)

In Brasília, the modern capital of Brazil, an anteater is found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders across the suburbs, and foxes prowl vacant streets. Meanwhile, in the city zoo—home to hundreds of displaced and rescued wild species†...

Meteoro (2023)

Future Brilliant (2023)

Abílio visits his family in Jundiaí, an inland city in Brazil. His sister, Gisele, is quadriplegic and dreams about doing a postgraduate course in order to become an English teacher. However, in this city, promises seem like ghosts and hope echoes like r ...

The Tree (2022)

Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao. ...

The Remainings (2021)

Declared dead by accident, Iolanda Bambirra lives like a ghost between life and death in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a town in ruins and with no trace of time. ...

Seasick (2021)

Mal di mare is a gasp of air, a shout sung in waves moving through a body nauseated by the confrontation with the violence of the ever swirling world. This improvised singing tries to break the invisible glass that separates the gaze and the realities of t ...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Beginning as a city state commission under the name and attitude of "Unschool", the film became a kaleidoscope of the experience ...

Apiyemiyekî? (2020)

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Ill ...

Dreaming In The Dark (2018)

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema's capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodime ...

The Grey House and the Green Mountains (2016)

A close look at nature. ...

Ghost Children (2016)

Presents seven reminiscences of early childhood, read in seven different voices, as the camera presses close against the faded dye and exaggerated grain of family photographs from the early 1980s. The film encourages the audience to interrogate assumptions ...

Daniel in the Lions' Den (2015)

Obstinate Daniel's grumpiness is evident. He really doesn't want to accompany his mother to an oncology conference. However, an unexpected meeting makes it an interesting weekend after all. Shot on grainy film stock, with camera work as uncompromising as D ...

Takotsubo (2015)

"My father told me I was ill. ...

Before This War (2015)

Among ruptures of memories, geographical and affective displacements, we revisited with Bruno the incursion into a city full of noise but that still emits a minimal murmur of love. ...

Midnights (2014)

Jair's courtship is over. ...

Tudo Menos Filmes (2024)

Antonio One Two Three (2019)

Antonio runs away from home and tries to spend the night at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. There he finds a brazilian girl, an unexpected guest. Johnny is struggling to stage his first theater play in Lisbon. His friendship with the young light technician ...