Marcelo Gomes

Portrait of a Certain Orient (2024)

At the end of the 1940s, Lebanon is sliding towards a devastating conflict. Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir decide to leave for Brazil. Aboard the ship to their new home, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. For an enraged and jealous Emir, ...

Mulheres do Microfone (2023)

Paloma (2022)

On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The pr ...

Raízes da Bola: Pintando a História do Futebol no Brasil (2020)

Acqua Movie (2019)

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river. ...

Divine Love (2019)

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana ...

Waiting for the Carnival (2019)

A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city's self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival. ...

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 ...

Neon Bull (2016)

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry. ...

The Violin Teacher (2015)

After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils. ...

Orphans of Eldorado (2015)

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair... ...

The Man of the Crowd (2013)

Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling w ...

Once Upon a Time Veronica (2012)

Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing romances. As her father feels his death approaching, he asks a favor: that she finds true love before he passes aw ...

Ex-It (2011)

Freely inspired by the work Catatau, by Paulo Leminski, the plot begins with the historical hypothesis imagined by the poet from Curitiba: "What if René Descartes had come to Brazil with Maurício de Nassau?" The film materializes this hypothesis and join ...

I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2010)

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As t ...

Happy Desert (2007)

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him. ...

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. ...

If It Where Always Like This (2004)

Video installation, in 16mm film. ...

Pool Acrylic Blue Hinterland (2004)

A trip, sort of a daydream in the Brazilian badlands. Remote places reveal traditions and customs of a landscape that is at once primitive and contemporary, regional and globalised. ...

Wrath Time (2003)

Madame Satã (2002)

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã. ...

The Time I've Eaten Popcorn (2001)

Clandestina Felicidade (1998)

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town. ...

A Perna Cabiluda (1997)

Punk Rock Hardcore: Alto José do Pinho É do Caralho! (1995)

Maracatu, Maracatus (1995)

The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco. ...

Amizade (2023)

Passages: Travelling In and Out of Film Through Brazilian Geography (2019)

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality. ...

Critic (2008)

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and ...