Isabél Zuaa

The Secret Agent (2025)

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. ...

Greice (2024)

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidde ...

Dialogues After the End (2023)

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, ...

Coup de Grâce (2022)

The sunlight illuminates a couple in bed. During the day, the house loses its cozy air and turns into a temple. She changes from lover to priestess. He transforms his embarrassment into a confession. ...

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 ...

Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2022)

The story of Brazil's first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life †...

Um Filme em Forma de Assim (2022)

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us. ...

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 ...

Knitting (2021)

Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their con ...

Dr. Gama (2021)

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's ...

A Yellow Animal (2020)

Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's co ...

Peripheral Workout (2020)

Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture. ...

We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars (2020)

Strike on the red carpet. ...

Foreign Desert (2020)

A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods. ...

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (2020)

In the year 74 BC, Titus Lucretius Carus, a young man with bold ideas, tries to convince his friend Memio that moving to the city of Rome to study is a total waste of time. Years later, Lucretius returns from the capital. Trying to find a balance between h ...

Bustagate (2020)

Arriaga (2019)

On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of ...

The Rehearsal (2019)

Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas', a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the vie ...

The Devil's Knot (2018)

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns ...

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. ...

Joaquim (2017)

Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to L ...

Capoeira, um passo a dois (2016)

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Pedra que Samba (2015)

Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of rein ...

Kbela (2015)

Kbela is an experience of being a woman and becoming black. The film's screenplay is based on the tale of MC K-Bela, which tells the story of a black girl, a resident of Rio's Baixada Fluminense region, who went through a process of whitening during her li ...

Mupepy Munatim (2012)

As he learns his mother died, a man who had left for France to find a job and a living is now returning to Portugal. We follow his wanderings, the places he forgot. We feel the stranger he has become in the eyes of the other people. Gone long ago, he didn' ...