Sabina Anzuategui

Sabina Anzuategui

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Sabina Anzuategui

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Uma Noite Não é Nada
Writer
São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel attracted to one of his students, Márcia, an HIV positive teenager. Quickly, the attraction of the two turns into an impossible love.
Absence
Screenplay
Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of his little brother.
The Beheading Game
Writer
Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.
So Hard to Forget
Screenplay
Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.
What Is It Worth?
Screenplay
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Desmundo
Writer
The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
The Devil Baby Was Born in São Paulo
Writer
An investigation into three São Paulo urban legends: The Devil Baby, the Blonde of the Bathroom and the Clown Gang. Originated in rumours, they were reported by the extinct tabloid Notícias Populares (NP) at different times. From this search, a universe is revealed where fantasy and reality are confused.
A língua do cão
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A língua do cão
Screenplay
A língua do cão
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