Grace Passô

The Son of a Thousand Men (2025)

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets. ...

Lispectorante (2025)

Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of abandonment. Through a crack in the ruins of where the writer Clarice Lispector once lived, Glória begins to see f ...

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. ...

The Day I Met You (2024)

Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town's school, where he works as a librarian. Waking up early is evermore difficult: something prevents him from maintaining his routine. One day, Zeca meets ...

Falas Negras: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Janaína is a black screenwriter embarking on a new audiovisual project. She meets the rest of the team, where all of whom are white, on a farm. Pedro, the leader of the script room, disappears. Janaína investigates and makes unimaginable discoveries. ...

Power Alley (2023)

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but nei ...

Our Mother was an Actress (2023)

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Br ...

Erva de Gato (2023)

Abandonment (2021)

The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking for something ...

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peop ...

To the Moon (2020)

This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments and original moonlit cinematography filmed across five continents, To the Moon steps lightly through the a ...

O Segundo Antes da Coragem (2020)

An experimental short for a TV Coragem channel program. ...

Republic (2020)

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood. ...

In the Heart of the World (2019)

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier. ...

Sem Asas (2019)

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers. ...

While We Are Here (2019)

"While we are here" mixes fiction, travelogue, film diary and documentary to tell the story Lamis, a Lebanese woman who just moved to New York and Wilson, a Brazilian man living illegally for 10 years in the same city. The film narrates the story of their ...

Dazed Flesh (2019)

After having invaded liquid, gaseous and solid substances, a strange voice takes possession of a woman's body and for the first time experiences the taste of something truly human. Together, the voice and the body seek for belonging and an identity of thei ...

Long Way Home (2019)

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting peopl ...

Praça Paris (2017)

Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child ...

Elon Doesn't Believe in Death (2017)

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn't find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a re ...

Elza Soares: A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (2017)

Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles ...

Marcha Para Zenturo (2017)

Threshold (2008)

Threshold narrates a story of love and mystery which takes place in an old house inhabited by the young Maria, whose fame as a saint extends well beyond the mountains of the interior of Brazil. The arrival of two new characters has a disturbing affect on M ...

The Best Mother in the World (2025)

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin's house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convin ...

Falas Negras: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Janaína is a black screenwriter embarking on a new audiovisual project. She meets the rest of the team, where all of whom are white, on a farm. Pedro, the leader of the script room, disappears. Janaína investigates and makes unimaginable discoveries. ...

Falas da Vida: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Falas de Orgulho: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Falas da Terra: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Falas Femininas: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Ficções Sônicas #2 (2021)

Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity ...

Ficções Sônicas (2020)

Ficções Sônicas is a sonic imagination of the radio play Pra Dar Um Fim no Juízo de Deus, by Antonin Artaud, immersed in the notion of non-place of diasporic experiences. Triggered by the term developed by the writer Kodwo Eshun, the work brings togeth ...

Mata Teu Pai (2020)

"I need you to listen to me!", Medea says in her first speech in the play. And among expatriates and immigrants, in a feverish state, she speaks. To and for the women—the Syrian, the Cuban, the Paulista, the Jewish, the Haitian—her accomplices. In the ...

O Segundo Antes da Coragem (2020)

An experimental short for a TV Coragem channel program. ...

Republic (2020)

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood. ...

Dazed Flesh (2019)

After having invaded liquid, gaseous and solid substances, a strange voice takes possession of a woman's body and for the first time experiences the taste of something truly human. Together, the voice and the body seek for belonging and an identity of thei ...