A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies
Having directed several short films and television series, Brazilian director Pedro Freire unleashes a motherlode of intergenerational...
For their feature debut collaboration, Brazilian filmmakers Nara Normande and Tião returned to the heart of Guaxuma, the beachside setting in Alagoas, for their...
August Winds (2014), Neon Bull (2015) and Divine Love (2019) filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro has began production on his fourth fiction feature film in his...
Rites of Resistance: Messora & Salaviza Provide Historical Ellipses of the Krahô
Researching a community without causing hindrance or harm has long been a concern...
Pedagio
Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz surprised us last year when she pulled out an entire other feature film rabbit from her hat. Charcoal became her...
Barba ensopada de sangue
For his sixth feature film, Brazilian filmmaker Aly Muritiba tackled the book-to-film adaptation of Daniel Galera's Blood-Drenched Beard - a 2015...
Pandemic times gifted Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz with fraternal film twins. Toll would turn out to be her sophomore feature, but she broke out...
Endemic Pandemic: Gerbase Unveils Prophetic Debut of Life During Lockdown
The uncanny prescience of Iuli Gerbase’s directorial debut The Pink Cloud is as stunning as...
O Kill, All Ye Faithful: Da Silveira Kills the Teen Dream in Capricious Sophomore Film
If there’s anything for certain in approaching Medusa, the extravagantly...
Mighty Aphrodite: Mascaro’s Second Coming Cloaked in Complex Allegory
The Immaculate Conception remains one of the notorious suspensions of disbelief in Christian folklore, and Brazilian...
Bacurau, the third feature from Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles (who served as production designer on Filho’s Neighboring Sounds in 2012 and...
It Takes a Village: Filho & Dornelles Smash Art-House into Grindhouse
A heady melding of local cultural motifs, morbid politically-minded histories and exploitation slasher vibes,...
Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...
La Casa de Antiguidades
Brazil’s João Paulo Miranda Maria seems primed for international success with his feature debut La Casa de Antiguidades (Memory House), produced...
With barely a year between productions, Brazilian filmmaker Gabriela Amaral Almeida moves from survivalism in O Animal Cordial to enlarger genre parameters to delve...
Lover, Come Back: Furtado Hearts Hemoglobin in Sinister Debut
The heart is a lonely killer in Brazilian director Alice Furtado’s apprehensive narrative debut Sick, Sick,...