Frederico Benevides

Movies

Amazon Mirror
Editor
A black and white film about the people who live near one of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants in Amazonia. In the shadow of this environmentally destructive project, they eke out involuntarily meagre lives, without electricity or infrastructure.
Mata
Editor
Faced with the advancement of eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous community stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture on the environment, in contrast to traditional ways of life. The enemy can also be green.
Landless
Editor
Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory's land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P.C. and their encamped fellows struggle to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agro-ecological crops in a newly knit peasant community they draw in their dreams.
Sol Alegria
Editor
While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
Once There Was Brasília
Editor
In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília's inauguration. But his ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia — a Black suburb of Brasilia — on the verge of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.
Corpo Delito
Editor
Ivan is a young Brazilian delinquent going through a probationary programme. An electronic shackle controls his location, but not his thoughts. Documentary about a man on home prison.
Entretempos
Sound Editor
A chant that evokes. A city that falls apart. A building that rises. A poeple that turns white. A family that convulses. A silence that cuts.
Entretempos
Editor
A chant that evokes. A city that falls apart. A building that rises. A poeple that turns white. A family that convulses. A silence that cuts.
Entretempos
Cinematography
A chant that evokes. A city that falls apart. A building that rises. A poeple that turns white. A family that convulses. A silence that cuts.
Entretempos
Writer
A chant that evokes. A city that falls apart. A building that rises. A poeple that turns white. A family that convulses. A silence that cuts.
Entretempos
Producer
A chant that evokes. A city that falls apart. A building that rises. A poeple that turns white. A family that convulses. A silence that cuts.
Verona
Editor
Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.
Luzeiro Volante
Editor
Let the most distracted of men delve into his deepest dreams: put him on his feet, move his legs, and he will infallibly lead you to water.
Visita ao Filho
Director