Philipp Lavra

Transamazonia (2025)

Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a "miracle" after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon Forest. Years later, Rebecca, who became a famous healer in the region, and her father find themselves embroiled in ...

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. ...

I'm Still Here (2024)

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act. ...

Dente por Dente (2020)

A thriller set in São Paulo Brazil, about a private security agent who starts to dream of his teeth falling. Somehow those dreams might be related to a string of mysterious deaths around him. Tormented by his dreams he sets on a journey to investigate, hi ...

Little Portugal (2020)

Jonatan, aka MC Xerelete, dreams of becoming a famous funk singer and so providing the comfortable life that he sees in the media for himself and his father. Till then, both of them work as fishermen at the Guanabara Bay. Together, they face the responsibi ...

Albatroz (2019)

Dreams and reality get mixed up in this sci-fi plot, focused on a photographer. When he photographs a terrorist attack during a trip to Jerusalem, his personal and professional lives plunge into turmoil. ...

Quando a Lua Cheia Sai (2017)

The Experiment (2016)

The film follows the journey of Bárbara, a visually impaired person who, in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, is contaminated by the bite of an undead. She and her boyfriend Jorge seek shelter when they encounter Dr. Vicente, a doctor who develops experim ...

#Thosegirls (2015)

Beth, Milena, and Carina are three college students who've shared some of Rio's most wild and legendary parties for the past few semesters. After living in New York for a year, Beth returns on New Year's Eve a changed girl, willing to mend her ways and gro ...