Carlos Ebert

Movies

Noite e Dia - Lima Barreto, Obra & Vida
Cinematography
Passagem Secreta
Director of Photography
Alice is forced to move alone to a small town, where she meets a new group of friends. While breaking into an amusement park to rescue one of her classmates, Alice discovers secrets about her identity and must make choices.
Fotografação
Camera Operator
A film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.
A Ponte de Bambu
Director of Photography
A puzzle to Western eyes, China is a giant that imposes itself through the barriers of language, traditions and history. With testimonies and images of historical and sentimental value, journalist Jayme Martins and his family lead us to a comprehension of China through the unprecedented narrative of his experience in that country: Communism, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the Celestial Peace Square Massacre, the reforms that culminated with the country becoming a superpower. Director Marcelo Machado dives into these memories and visits the country with which he possesses an affective liaison.
Pequenos Delitos
Director of Photography
Duda is a young girl of 13 years intrigued by her mother's work. Beside a new friend, she starts walking at night, and crosses a border with no return.
O Crime da Cabra
Director of Photography
Life in a small Brazilian town is shaken by a crime: somebody stole the money from the selling of a goat.
O Proustiano de Osasco
Writer
Circular
Director of Photography
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
Janela Molhada
Director of Photography
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".
Um Homem de Moral
Director of Photography
Um Homem Qualquer
Cinematography
Jonas is a thirty-something unemployed dreamer whose fantasies keep him from growing up. He's tired of the daily life in the megalopolis, the lack of money, time and affectio. In spite of this, he still believes a simpler life is possible. He then meets and falls in love with Lia, a young actress in the theater.
Solo
Director of Photography
A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer the same – it has changed for the worse. This gesture is the trigger for a reflection on life, the passage of time and the difficulty in understanding the present day.
Booker Pittman
Director of Photography
The life of jazz clarinetist Booker Pittman.
Satori Uso
Director of Photography
A poet from the shadows, a filmmaker with no films and an enigmatic muse. A sort of "false documentary" about the passage of the poet by the city of Londrina in the fifties by the eyes of American filmmaker Jim Kleist.
Vlado: Thirty Years Later
Director of Photography
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship.
From Bereavement to Fight
Director of Photography
This documentary gives a look without prejudice into Down syndrome, exposing families and individuals with Down syndrome. Parents discloses their experiences from the moment the doctors tell them that their babies have Down syndrome and how they supersede their initial rejection by the feeling of the motherhood and parenthood. But the most important, the director and writer shows how the patients with Down syndrome may succeed in their lives, dancing, practicing sports, reading and even loving and getting married.
From Bereavement to Fight
This documentary gives a look without prejudice into Down syndrome, exposing families and individuals with Down syndrome. Parents discloses their experiences from the moment the doctors tell them that their babies have Down syndrome and how they supersede their initial rejection by the feeling of the motherhood and parenthood. But the most important, the director and writer shows how the patients with Down syndrome may succeed in their lives, dancing, practicing sports, reading and even loving and getting married.
On the Fringes of São Paulo: Homeless
Director of Photography
Documentary about homeless people in São Paulo, Brazil (more than 9000!), discussing themes such as social exclusion, unemployment, alcohol abuse, madness and religiosity.
6th Street, No Number
Director of Photography
Am unemployed man receives a package from a dying stranger to be delievered to a certain Maira at 6th Street but he never learns the number.
Carolina
Director of Photography
Carolina Maria de Jesus. Her favela diary was a success in 1960. Despite her recognition, she died forgotten and poor.
Final Night Minus Five Minutes
Director of Photography
While there's still oil, a maverick rushes through empty roads.
Deus é um Fogo
Cinematography
It's Not All True
Camera Operator
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
The King of the Candle
Producer
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
The King of the Candle
Writer
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
República da Traição
Writer
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
República da Traição
Director
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
The Red Light Bandit
Director of Photography
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Viagem ao Fim do Mundo
Assistant Director of Photography
During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
Lavra Dor
Camera Operator
A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".
Lavra Dor
Director of Photography
A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".
Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Salomão
Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.