Julia Zakia

Criadas (2026)

Sandra returns to her cousin Mariana's house in search of a photo of her late mother, who worked as a live-in maid for Mariana's parents. Although they were raised together, Sandra, a dark-skinned Black woman, and Mariana, a light-skinned Black woman, expe ...

The Battle (2025)

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP. ...

Citrotoxic (2024)

We Are the Future (2023)

In the 1980s, the musical and futuristic teacher Clara Celeste arrives at a school surrounded by bullying problems driven by issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, physique, and behavior. With the teacher's help, a group of students are finally able to fi ...

Until the Music is Over (2023)

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendent family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaucha. Their trust in each other breaks down when Ch ...

Neirud (2023)

Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout the 60s an ...

Eneida (2022)

Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades. ...

Barbie & Bob (2020)

A young couple spends the night in a motel room in the Brazilian Capital. Amid drugs, drinks, money and whims, they mimic a marriage cerimony, triggering the violence between patriarchy and the Brazilian political elite. ...

Frogs (2019)

It's dripping through the ceiling, the space for sleeping is scarce. Under poor living conditions, a young mother handles everyday life with her two daughters in the Brazilian suburb as best she can. When they unexpectedly acquire a load of frog legs, this ...

Lavender (2019)

During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower? ...

Partida (2019)

The film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on ...

Their Happiness (2019)

Two girls run away from the police after the Women's March. In the midst of violence, they find a way to live their desire. ...

Guigo Offline (2017)

Guigo is in love with Sabrina, with whom he exchanges messages through his cell phone. He is the son of separated parents. One day he and his friend Túlio travel to a fishery with their father, Roberto, and his friend, Paulo. ...

Rainha (2016)

When Rita fulfills her dream of becoming the carnival queen of a samba school she will have to fight against the dark forces of her internal and external world. ...

Gypsy River (2015)

A gypsy girl travels across the vast lands of Brazil to save her long lost childhood friend from a violent countess who drinks the blood of young women. ...

Periscópio (2015)

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room. ...

Helena Ramos (2009)

Bailão (2009)

A generation reminisces about its own memory — what was it like to be a queer man in decades past? With São Paulo in the background, they reflect about the urgency of a life that was kept hidden for so long. And it is at Bailão that these various stori ...

O Aborto dos Outros (2008)

The documentary shows the experience of women who experienced abortion in four public hospitals in Brazil, and addresses motherhood, affectivity, intolerance, loneliness and the issue of illegality. ...

Tarabatara (2007)

"Why is it that I've never lived in one sector definitively? Because I feel bad. I feel bad about the air of one place." Tarabatara is a call to daily life and the charms of a gypsy family from the hinterland of Alagoas. The documentary captures moments of ...

O Chapéu do meu avô (2004)

Partida (2019)

The film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on ...