Sílvio Restiffe

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 ...

Night in Motion (2022)

Antonio is a broken man, trapped in the memories of a past relationship. He ends up going out for one night against his will. And that night ends up transforming his life. ...

Jumbled 2 (2022)

In this Brazilian mockumentary, Paulo, Manuel, Eric and Alex all have a shared dream: to make a blockbuster action movie. The challenge is immense, as it requires bringing their grandiose ideas down to Earth. Each is equally passionate and narrow-minded ab ...

As janelas que encontramos no caminho (2019)

Petit Mal (2018)

In Sao Paulo, Janaína and João take care of each other. She has epilepsy. He is in a relationship with a man who prefers to keep his distance. Above their lives floats the vague trauma of a mudslide that may have buried men and machines alike. Together, ...

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 ...

Daniel in the Lions' Den (2015)

Obstinate Daniel's grumpiness is evident. He really doesn't want to accompany his mother to an oncology conference. However, an unexpected meeting makes it an interesting weekend after all. Shot on grainy film stock, with camera work as uncompromising as D ...

Coffee Stains (2014)

A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend's house. ...

E (2014)

The city and its parking lots. ...

Tattoo (2013)

Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship ...

Jardim Europa (2013)

A decadent upper class family of mother and three grown-up children who lives in one of the richest neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is faced with the past as the long estranged father, who supposedly was the cause of the family's ruin, returns and acco ...

Aluga-se (2012)

How much does urban space influence our interior space? ...

Hard Labor (2011)

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity. ...

Descompasso (2011)

Lucia understands the world through sounds. She, as the people the surrounds her, struggles in the pursuit of relating with others. Her particular perspective, however, will turn that gap of communication even bigger. ...

The Shadows (2009)

In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them. ...

Palindrome (2001)

A word or phrase whose meaning does not change whether spelt backwards or forwards. A young man loses everything he has in one day. He is fired from his job, kicked out of his hotel, betrayed by his colleagues and turned down by an old flame. ...

Night in Motion (2022)

Antonio is a broken man, trapped in the memories of a past relationship. He ends up going out for one night against his will. And that night ends up transforming his life. ...

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 ...