Luiz Pretti

Limites do Diáfano (2024)

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and styl ...

As Linhas da Minha Mão (2024)

Dives into actress and performer Viviane de Cassia Ferreira's life and how the relationship between life and imagination conects to her creations. ...

Seu Cavalcanti (2024)

The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil. ...

Ògún Lákáayé (2023)

Ogun, the one who has influence over the world, the prince among the other Orixás. He who, despite having water, prefers to bathe in blood. The one who, despite having clothes, prefers to wear a swimsuit. The one who opened the way for the other Orixás w ...

Canção ao Longe (2023)

The young Jimena searches for her identity. The film follows the life of the young woman with her mother and grandmother, white middle-class women, and the exchange of letters with her father, a foreign and black man, whom the young woman resembles. Seekin ...

Lava (2022)

Partida de Vôlei à Sombra do Vulcão (2021)

Mesmerized by the image of an active volcano on the other side of the world, a woman sets out to meet her fury. On the way, without being able to return, she finds herself in an extraordinary pregnancy, starting the account of the journey that gives shape ...

Corre de Marmita (2021)

O Veredicto (2021)

Audiovisual letter. ...

The Cannibal Club (2019)

Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a p ...

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 ...

Os Que se Vão (2018)

A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without belonging to it anymore. A farewell before departing. ...

Araby (2018)

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it's he ...

The Last Breath (2016)

The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all cou ...

Solon (2016)

Solon inhabits a dry, barren space. She begins her mission to nourish the Earth. The landscape and the character herself are changed. The world is born. The woman is born. ...

The Hidden Tiger (2016)

Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson and Eldo are young residents of the Bairro Nacional, outskirts of Contagem, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Divided between work and fun, crime and hope, each will have to find ways of overcoming difficulties and taming the tige ...

Aracati (2016)

Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Following the route of the Aracati wind, the film moves from the beach to the countryside. During this path, it observes the relationship between man and landscape, thetransformations of space and the limits between nature and ar ...

Eclipse Solar (2016)

Three workers gather around the preparation of a party in a museum. Apparently unknown, contacts between the three reveal profound implications in the past. In the center of the clashes there's a child. Lurking, the Devil. ...

Dark Zone (2015)

A lonely man wanders lost by a post-apocalyptic city. ...

Tybalt Dead, Romeo Exiled (2015)

João is a 32-years-old musician that opts for the isolation of a farmhouse in the Brazilian countryside after Flora, his pregnant wife, breaks up with him. Three months pass and he's finally ready to make amends with his wife and follow the birth of his s ...

The End of an Age (2014)

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life. ...

Clenched Fists (2014)

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attac ...

The Harbor (2014)

Valongo's quay - Empress quay - Rio de Janeiro port - Porto Maravilha (wonder port): layers of a city haunted by progress. One port on top of the other. ...

Aliança (2014)

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. ...

The Harmonica's Howl (2013)

A young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future are established in this story of liquid love. ...

Rio Belongs to Us (2013)

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there's nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting. ...

Ventos de Valls (2013)

Ana, a three-year-old girl, accompanies her family to Catalonia. It's a return to the homeland after half a century away. Gathered in the small town of Valls, six Panadés brothers remember their childhood in a troubled time in Spanish history, ravaged by ...

We Are Not Dreaming (2012)

Yes, we will build a world. We're not dreaming. Despite the struggle, brick by brick, part by part, we will build it. We're not dreaming. ...

Odete (2012)

Odete is caught between the past and the future. She goes on a journey, but remains immobile. She faces the abyss and wonders if she will make it out alive. ...

Dogs are said to see things (2012)

An omen, a shred of time only. Suddenly the huge-bellied man jumps into the pool holding a glass of whiskey. ...

Retrato de uma Paisagem (2012)

A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And the scenario for the future is not yet established. ...

As Horas Vulgares (2011)

The painter Lauro seems to have a good life: he lives with his beloved wife Erika, and is successful working with art. However, he is not happy. One day, Lauro runs into Theo, a friend he hasn't seen in years. Both have already been in love with the same g ...

At the Wrong Place (2011)

Four friends are reunited in a night that is moved by a game of lies and truth with unexpected consequences. This movie is based on the theatrical play "Eutro" directed by Rodrigo Fischer. ...

Adormecidos (2011)

Everywhere, at dusk, lights and advertising posters become the only living beings among the inert streets. Beings that never meet, strangers almost exactly the same. ...

The Monsters (2011)

No man is a failure when he has friends. ...

O Mundo é Belo (2010)

Road to Ythaca (2010)

"Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expec ...

Longa Vida Ao Cinema Cearense (2008)

Sábado À Noite (2007)

A documentary following random people at a Saturday night in Fortaleza. ...

Às Vezes É Mais Importante Lavar A Pia Do Que A Louça Ou Simplesmente Sabiaguaba (2006)

I am a breather. ...

Estética da Solidão (2001)

Na Ilha (2019)

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes. ...

Clenched Fists (2014)

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attac ...

We Are Not Dreaming (2012)

Yes, we will build a world. We're not dreaming. Despite the struggle, brick by brick, part by part, we will build it. We're not dreaming. ...

The Monsters (2011)

No man is a failure when he has friends. ...

Road to Ythaca (2010)

"Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expec ...