Nelson Diniz

Janeiro (2024)

Vai Dar Nada (2022)

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back. ...

Verona (2021)

Two families on neighboring farms on the border between Brazil and Uruguay. Decades drive these people away. The physical proximity is separated by a fence and the set of prejudices, inexplicable hatred and lack of generosity. In the end of the year, betw ...

Empty House (2021)

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the ...

Mudança (2020)

After Being Ashes (2020)

Three women with completely different backgrounds have one thing in common: they loved and were connected to the same man. From the point of view of these women, through an intricate structure moving back and forth in time, Raul enters the story. ...

The Nightshifter (2019)

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night. ...

Dia de mudança (2019)

Rend Your Heart (2018)

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son. ...

Yonlu (2018)

A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, Yonlu had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he w ...

Fuinha & Caçapava (2015)

Joaquim and Margarida spend the day in the antique shop of their grandfather, the forgotten Fuinha, and his partner, the grumpy Caçapava. An old suitcase, full of strange bottles, is the portal to a magical world where extraordinary adventures are lived a ...

A Oeste do Fim do Mundo (2014)

The Staple of News (2014)

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play "The Staple of News" provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and ...

Meu Pai (2014)

Álvaro, 12 years old, is the only child of separated parents. He is in a phase of many doubts and concerns. He wants to grow up soon, but did his father take too long to grow up? What did the father do with the girls? It's difficult to ask, Alvaro's fathe ...

Contos Gauchescos (2011)

In Your Name (2010)

Early 1970s. Latin America was under a military dictatorship. Some political groups opted for armed struggle to confront the regime. Boni, an engineering student of humble background adheres to the armed struggle, but carries doubts and fears as to whether ...

Rummikub (2007)

To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"? ...

Sal de Prata (2005)

After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life. ...

A Paixão de Jacobina (2002)

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After having a divine vision and speaking to Jesus, she changes her appearance and manners, disturbing the conservat ...

Tolerância (2000)

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as reveng ...

The Sandwich (2000)

A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich. ...

O Velho do Saco (1999)

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, "who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children". It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innoc ...

Paulo e Ana Luiza em Porto Alegre (1998)

A friendly couple from Porto Alegre. They enjoy traveling, old records, and gastronomy. They invent games... strange games. ...

Anahy de las Misiones (1997)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead. ...