Marco Dutra
Birth : 1980-03-17, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
History
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.
Writer
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.
Editor
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Thanks
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.
Editor
Sergio answers 36 questions to make Gabriel fall in love. Did you know Glauber was a Pisces?
Director
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.
Original Music Composer
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.
Sound
A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Editor
A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Producer
A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Director of Photography
A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Director
A short documentary by Marco Dutra.
Editor
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.
Editor
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
Writer
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.
Music
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Original Music Composer
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison.
Executive Producer
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison.
Director
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison.
Writer
Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.
Director
Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.
extra
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.
Editor
At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
Writer
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.
Original Music Composer
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.
Editor
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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.
Editor
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Writer
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
Director
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
João Raymundo Ribeiro
Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.
Writer
The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects.
Assistant Director
Writer
Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
Director
Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
Cinematography
His job was to place every little step sound in sync with the video. Looked like it wouldn't take him very far.
Tales of the Countess' maid, who helps her with a dark secret
Music
A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.
Screenplay
A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.
Director
A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.
Screenplay
A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.
Director
A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.
Writer
Director
Script
A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.
Director
A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.
Cinematography
The story of Freitas, a repressed and conservative family man, who has a tragic surprise on his birthday.
Producer
Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.
Director
Man 1
Director
Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.
Buyer
Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.
Screenplay
Two animal road corpse removers end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.
Director
Two animal road corpse removers end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.
