Magali Biff

Bury Your Dead (2025)

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink o ...

How long lasts the touch (2024)

In an essay about grief and loss, the actors are invited to relive the director's memories as well as their own memories and thoughts on life and death. Throughout the film, we explore textures that evoke the sense of touch. ...

The Joy of Things (2022)

In a small Brazilian seaside town we follow the efforts of Paula, who is pregnant of her third child, to build a pool in her humble beach house, so the family can enjoy the rest of their vacation. Financial difficulties will interrupt the work and reveal c ...

Silvio (2021)

The silence in the apartment carries stories. The frenzy of the streets omits our sounds. A conversation on a park bench breaks the chaos. Sílvio lives alone in São Paulo, Brazil. ...

Mar de Dentro (2020)

A successful professional, Manuela must deal with the changes in her body when she finds out she is pregnant. Ahead, when the baby is born, she also needs to learn to be a mother. ...

Bird Boy (2018)

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother. ...

O Homem Perfeito (2018)

Diana is a successful and happily married woman. At least that's what she thinks until she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with a young aspiring dancer. ...

Açúcar (2017)

Bethânia returns to her land, where the family's old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past a ...

A Window to Rosália (2017)

Rosália is a woman from São Paulo who has spent decades of her life working in a factory. One day, she is fired. ...

Deserto (2016)

A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered ...

Bicho (2008)

Final Night Minus Five Minutes (1994)

While there's still oil, a maverick rushes through empty roads. ...

Hour of the Star (1986)

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride th ...