Fiapo Barth

Movies

Filme Sobre um Bom Fim
Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years.
Real Beleza
Art Direction
Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town.
The Staple of News
Art Direction
Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.
Sweet Mother
Art Direction
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
Homens de Bem
Art Direction
Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
Basic Sanitation: The Movie
Art Direction
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Sal de Prata
Production Design
After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.
My Uncle Killed a Guy
Art Direction
Eder (Lázaro Ramos) is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca (Darlan Cunha), a 15 years old boy who is Eder's nephew, wants to prove the innocence of his uncle, he's sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya (Deborah Secco), ex-wife of the deceased. Duca also wants to win the heart of Isa (Sophia Reis), a classmate who seems more interested in his best friend, Kid (Renan Gioelli). To be able to prove his theory, Duca gets help from Isa and Kid.
The Man Who Copied
Art Direction
André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy something, but finds out that he can't afford it. So he puts the photocopier to other uses, and begins to envisage fishy schemes to earn some money.
Houve uma Vez Dois Verões
Art Direction
A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer
O Sanduíche
Art Direction
A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
Deus Ex-Machina
Production Design
Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious morals try to appear honest to each other.
Veja Bem
Art Direction
A Matadeira
Art Direction
Esta Não é a Sua Vida
Art Direction
O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo
Art Direction
Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil.
Isle of Flowers
Art Direction
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
O Mentiroso
Production Design
The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.
Barbosa
Production Design
A frustrated man travels back in time in order to change the outcome of the soccer game that forever changed his life.
The Day Dorival Faced the Guards
Art Direction
Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.