
Birthday:
03-17-1980
(44 years)
Birthplace:
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography
Marco Dutra graduated in São Paulo University's Film School. He wrote and directed several short films with his university friend Juliana Rojas. "O Lençol Branco" and "Um Ramo" were part of the Festival de Cannes selection and won awards around the world. His first feature, "Trabalhar Cansa", also premiered in Cannes at the Un Certain Regard selection. "Quando Eu Era Vivo" is his second feature film. Marco also works as a writer, editor and composer. He is part of the production group Filmes do Caixote.
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The Silence of the Sky
Act like Client Notorio
event2016 star_border 6.4
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After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
Eva Nil, Cem Anos Sem Filmes
Act like João Raymundo Ribeiro
event2009
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Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.
Three Shots, Nine Shots
Act like Buyer
event1999
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Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.
Doppelgänger
Act like Extra
event2012 star_border 5.7
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Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her pesonality.
A Criada da Condessa
event2006
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Tales of the Countess' maid, who helps her with a dark secret
Bury Your Dead
Director
event2024
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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 of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.
Hard Labor
Director
event2011 star_border 6.4
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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.
When I Was Alive
Director
event2014 star_border 5.5
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After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.
Eye of the Storm
Writer
event2009 star_border 9
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The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects.
The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty
Editor
event2014 star_border 2
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Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them.
Estátua!
Editor
event2014 star_border 6
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Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Writer
event2010 star_border 6.8
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Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)
Director
event2011 star_border 6
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An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.
Good Manners
Director
event2017 star_border 6.6
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Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
A Stem
Writer
event2007 star_border 5.7
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Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
Editor
event2025
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Close to turning forty and away from his job as a librarian due to depression, Marcos needs to take care of Baby, his sister's pet dog. Isolated in an apartment in the city center, Marcos relies on the support of analyst Dr. Juliana R., who sees him in therapy sessions. Together, they look for ways to deal with the grief over the death of his ex-boyfriend, Pedro, and the arrival of a new love, Gabriel. Baby, a special hairless dog of Aztec origin, will redefine his relationship with the world of the dead and the living as well.
Tinnitus
Writer
event2023 star_border 4.7
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Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
The Open Diary of R.
Producer
event2003 star_border 8.5
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Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.
Uma Primavera
Editor
event2011 star_border 6
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At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
A Sutil Circunstância
Editor
event2011
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A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.
Futuro Beach
Writer
event2014 star_border 6.6
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Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
The Comforting Hand
Editor
event2012 star_border 6
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At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
My Only Earth Is in the Moon
Editor
event2017 star_border 7
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Sergio answers 36 questions to make Gabriel fall in love. Did you know Glauber was a Pisces?
The White Sheet
Screenplay
event2004 star_border 6
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A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.
The Wound
Thanks
event2017 star_border 6.4
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Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
Concert Number Three
Screenplay
event2004
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A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison
Director
event2013
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After heartbreaks and professional disappointments on planet Earth, Julio and Clara decide to flee together into space.
My Country
Writer
event2011 star_border 5.8
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A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.
Raquel 1:1
Script Consultant
event2023 star_border 3.9
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Raquel is a religious teenager who moves with her father to a small town in search of a new life. During her first days there, she has a mysterious experience which leads her to believe she’s been given an important and controversial mission by God.
Espera
Director
event2003
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A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.
Quietness
Writer
event2018 star_border 7.1
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The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by the way they guide their existence based on worldly concerns.
Nossos Parabéns ao Freitas
Cinematography
event2003 star_border 8
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The story of Freitas, a repressed and conservative family man, who has a tragic surprise on his birthday.
Sleeping Hammock
Writer
event2013
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Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.
Nobody Leaves Alive
Screenplay
event2024 star_border 7
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“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a trend this year among the maestros of cinema. The film is inspired by true events that took place in the last century in the “Colonia” hospital in Brazil. Whoever didn’t fit the standards of society, or their family’s perception of it, was locked away, tortured, and killed. There were altogether more than 60,000 victims. Hope dies last, and some of the inmates don’t give up the fight. We’re reminded of film classics such as “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” or “Alcatraz”.
Náufragos
Editor
event2010 star_border 5
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Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
The Shadows
Writer
event2009 star_border 6
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In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
To Sleep Quietly
Original Music Composer
event2011
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Luis is an 8 year old boy. Dora, his nanny, passed away a few weeks ago. When Dora reappears hidden in Luis's closet, the boy must make great efforts to quench the nanny's hunger.
Nightwalker
Director
event2003
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A young woman has to face the silence and horror of the empty house after the suicide of her brother.
All the Dead Ones
Director
event2020 star_border 5.2
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The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
Necropolis Symphony
Original Music Composer
event2014 star_border 5.8
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In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.
Sentimental Memories of a Footstep Sound Editor
Cinematography
event2006 star_border 8.5
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His job was to place every little step sound in sync with the video. Looked like it wouldn't take him very far.
Sunday
Director
event2015
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A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Uma Montanha em Movimento
Music
event2025
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The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
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