Formosa Beach 2024
Like any industrious coastal town or city, Rio de Janeiro's port region has always been a hub for the confluence of cultures, nationalities and identities. Since 2013, it has also formed the basis of a research project for filmmaker Julia De Simone. Her third feature-length film – which was supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund in 2014 – shifts away from straightforward documentary and towards a more fictionalised form as it presents the story of Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, who awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.

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Private Photos 2020    star_border 4.8
A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.

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Aracati 2016
Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Following the route of the Aracati wind, the film moves from the beach to the countryside. During this path, it observes the relationship between man and landscape, thetransformations of space and the limits between nature and artifice.

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Cloro 2014    star_border 5
Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.

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