Wilssa Esser

White Roses, Fall! (2025)

In this genre-hopping road movie from Daughters of Fire director Albertina Carri, Violeta, the director of an amateur lesbian porn hit, is invited to make a mainstream crossover. With a budget and cast, but no firm idea where to go, the crew head off on a ...

Lispectorante (2025)

Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of abandonment. Through a crack in the ruins of where the writer Clarice Lispector once lived, Glória begins to see f ...

A Vilã das Nove (2024)

Recently divorced, Roberta is living her best life, until she discovers that someone has turned her biggest secret into the plot of a soap opera — where she is the villain. ...

Vollúpya (2024)

In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s. ...

When Here (2024)

Travel through time without leaving your place. ...

Power Alley (2023)

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but nei ...

Infantry (2022)

In a conservative and swampy Brazil, a birthday party is held at a fatherless home. Joana, the birthday girl, wants to get her period soon. Her brother, Dudu, wants his father home. When teenager Verbena arrives unannounced, all the wishes can come true. B ...

Sunday Morning (2022)

Gabriela is a young black pianist who will perform at her first major recital. However, a dream about her late mother destabilizes Gabriela's mind and heart, jeopardizing her performance. From a series of encounters over the course of a day, Gabriela will ...

Ficções Sônicas #2 (2021)

Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity ...

Menarche (2020)

In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence. When a mysterious body appears tangled in a fisherman's net, they learn ...

O Segundo Antes da Coragem (2020)

An experimental short for a TV Coragem channel program. ...

Republic (2020)

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood. ...

Mascarados (2020)

A court order obliges the masked persons of the Festa do Divino to leave with an identification number. Not satisfied, a group of them tries to invade the city hall. ...

Long Way Home (2019)

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting peopl ...

Breakwater (2019)

A group of friends from São Paulo head for a secluded beach to celebrate New Year's. Together they relax, sunbathe and make music. And they talk: about their sexuality, their bodies, their hair, their youth, their fears, certainties and uncertainties, as ...

Disaster Film (2017)

A trans woman, Anjélica, waits in her apartment while Lúcia changes the lock on her front door. While the lock is being changed, the two women converse and we learn more about their situation. ...

La Jaula (2016)

El Vuelo de los Cangrejos (2016)

Escaped from school, Raúl and Luis get a dead man buried on the beach. Rosa, his mother, decides to go to the authority of the town, the prefect Ledezma. Thanks to Raúl, Rosa discovers that Ledezma is involved, decides to attempt her own ethics to save t ...

Kicks (2016)

Sandra is pregnant and wants a girl. Her husband Marcos wants a soccer player. ...

Republic (2020)

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood. ...