Mariana Nunes

Películas

Death Inhabits at Night
Ligia
Greasy hair; grooved and unshaven face; emanating alcohol fumes. Raúl just doesn't care anymore. In the opening scene of Death Inhabits at Night, the unemployed writer pours himself another glass of cheap wine as an upstairs neighbour leaps to his death. His girlfriend is clearly more upset by the incident. A little later, she finds a letter by the door reminding them to pay the rent or be evicted. Raúl shrugs and suggests going back to bed. But all of this dismissiveness changes following a meeting with a troubled young girl.
Um Dia Qualquer
Under the masks and fantasies of another day in Rio's suburbs, the intense reality of families and neighbors living in a neighborhood under the domain of the expansive militia is hidden.
Pureza
Elenice
"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.
Alemão 2
Mariana
Dr. Gama
Claudina (adulta)
Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
Falas Negras
Lélia Gonzalez
The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.
M8 - When Death Rescues Life
Cida
When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.
Divino amor
Lígia
En el Brasil de 2027, donde las raves celebran el amor celestial y las consultas espirituales se han convertido en norma, Joana mantiene su relación con Dios como el aspecto más importante de su vida. Utiliza su trabajo como notaria para que las parejas que soliciten el divorcio reconsideren su posición, además de participar como miembro en un grupo poco convencional de religiosos que la ayudan a mantener su matrimonio a flote. Aunque tanto ella como su marido tienen problemas para lograr traer un niño al mundo, el esfuerzo que conlleva esta tarea les acercará aún más a la gracia de Dios.
Zama
Malemba
Narra la historia de Don Diego de Zama, un oficial español del siglo XVII asentado en Asunción que espera su transferencia a Buenos Aires. Es un hombre que espera ser reconocido por sus méritos. Pero en los años de espera pierde todo. Decide atrapar un peligroso bandido y recuperar su nombre... Basada en la novela existencial de Antonio Di Benedetto escrita en 1956.
Saint George
Susana
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
Amor ao Quadrado
Sarah
Maresia
Maria
Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction in one man's life? That's the issue confronting an art expert delving into the biography of a painter who drowned 50 years ago, whose presence suddenly makes itself felt through the appearance of a contemporary friend.
The Last Breath
The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all countries, unite.
Pelé: El nacimiento de una leyenda
Celeste Arantes
Biopic sobre el legendario futbolista brasileño Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé.
The Other Side of Paradise
Enide
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
Trinta
Isabel
Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.
All These Days When I'm Foreign
Antônio feels out of place.
My Friend Nietzsche
Aurora
11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.
Rat Fever
Rosângela
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
O Homem Mau Dorme Bem
In a petrol station near the road, three characters meet: Rita, the station's owner, that keeps searching for a love that she thought she once had; Wésley, a seller of pirate DVD's and CD's that, after thrown into underemployment, is trying to rebuilt his life; and Caburé, that haven't slept in years waiting to redeem a past of life and death. Gathered by an apparent coincidence, they weave their fate until they discover what is common in their stories.
Black Skin, White Suit
Director
Cinelimite presents a video essay by Juliano Gomes and Mariana Nunes, in which they delve into the symbolism of Compasso de Espera: a film conceived by Zózimo Bulbul and Antunes Filho in response to the lack of opportunities for Black professionals in the film industry in the late 1960s.