Rodrigo Lima

Victims of the Day (2025)

Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born. ...

Flashes of Critiques Metaphysical Murmurs (2024)

A montage of 48 Brazilian films made between 1898 and 2022. The moments, the frames, where we feel a glimmer, an innovation, some experimentation and emotion coming to us at different times. A fine thread that runs through cinema since its birth, and even ...

Rudder of Destiny (2023)

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation, their desires, the risks and phantoms of existence, the privilege of the wounded and of condemnation, traverse ...

Ideogram (2023)

Sequence plans in full freedom of investigation of bodies, of their shadows, means and desires. It is the extension of the movement and the apprehension of the light on the frame. The end is loud. A visit to Brazil's visual past. About exploring these ima ...

Capitu and the Chapter (2023)

"If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?" Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of t ...

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023)

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that ...

Manguebit (2021)

Mangue Beat, a musical and aesthetic movement which emerged in Pernambuco in the 1990s, transformed the visibility of the peripheries and cultural manifestations of the metropolitan area of Recife and placed the state on the map of the world music market w ...

Island of the Sun (2021)

In a primitive future, Amerindian, Mediterranean graphics are drawn, facing a silent and decrepit bay of Guanabara. ...

Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Surlej (2019)

Bressane (together with his partner Rosa Dias and young filmmaker Rodrigo Lima) guide us through the beautiful Swiss Sils Maria, where Nietzsche spent no less than eight summers. In his letters, Nietzsche indicates which spots brought him to a different un ...

Calypso (2018)

Calypso and Ulisses live in exile in a collapsing world. ...

Seduction of the Flesh (2018)

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she's always observed by a large portion of raw meat. ...

Oblivious Memory (2018)

Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell ...

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 Serpent (2016)

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister's suicide, Guida ...

Beduíno (2016)

A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire. They search for it through repeated and varied representations, in a setting of light where hope and desperation blend together. ...

Kid (2015)

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure. ...

Meus Dois Amores (2015)

Manuel is a crafty cowboy and swindler who lives to serve his two great loves – his fiancée Das Dô, and his mule Beija-fulô – and his business of selling unsound horses to suckers. The killer Targino arrives in town looking for a horse. Thinking tha ...

Escola de Princesinhas 5 (2014)

Sentimental Education (2013)

Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attra ...

Atlantic Garden (2012)

The film is a narrative starting from the story of Pierre and Syl, a couple that experiences the conflict between possession and freedom in a troubled relationship. Pierre is insecure and jealous, while Syl can't even imagine that spending time with her fr ...

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit (2012)

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years. ...

Aperana Street 52 (2012)

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the a ...

Belair (2009)

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom. ...

PentaTri: A Hegemonia (2009)

The Herb of the Rat (2009)

The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship. ...

Meu Nome é Dindi (2008)

Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near bankruptcy and fights for survival. ...

Escola de Princesinhas 3 (2008)

Ties (2007)

Cleopatra (2007)

The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization. ...

Cartola: The Samba Legend (2007)

Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira). ...

Ver Viver Reviver (2007)

In September 2007 Júlio Bressane goes to Ferrara. In the cemetery of the Italian city he ends up making two movies. ...

The Knight Didi and the Princess Lili (2006)

This adventure movie features Didi as King's Lindolfo groom and valet, a faithful servant to the royal family. After the King's death, his evil brother Jafar tries to seize the throne. He plots for his son Galante to marry young princess Lili, but Didi won ...

Irmãos de Fé (2004)

Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul. ...

Didi Wanna Be a Kid (2004)

Didi works at a traditional candy factory, which faces serious problems with the competition of a big company, whose products are full of artifical and dangerous flavors and colorants. He tries to warn the kids of the danger, but they don't believe him, an ...

Um Show de Verão (2004)

Andréa, a poor telemarketing salesgirl, dreams of being a singer. Her rich boyfriend Fred hires a musical producer, Marcelo, to turn her into a star. But she and Marcelo end up falling in love. ...

Mary, Mother of the Son of God (2003)

Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana's exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to return. In spite ...

Ver Viver Reviver (2007)

In September 2007 Júlio Bressane goes to Ferrara. In the cemetery of the Italian city he ends up making two movies. ...