Marcelo Gomes

Marcelo Gomes

Профиль

Marcelo Gomes
Marcelo Gomes

Фильмы

Portrait of a Certain Orient
Director
At the end of the 1940s, Lebanon is sliding towards a devastating conflict. Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir decide to leave for Brazil. Aboard the ship to their new home, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. For an enraged and jealous Emir, the relationship is intolerable. As the story unfolds against the backdrop of the majestic rainforest, Emir’s actions and the choice that Emilie subsequently makes lead to disastrous consequences.
Mulheres do Microfone
Writer
Paloma
Screenplay
On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.
Paloma
Director
On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.
Raízes da Bola: Pintando a História do Futebol no Brasil
Director
Passages
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
Acqua Movie
Writer
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Waiting for the Carnival
Writer
A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.
Waiting for the Carnival
Director
A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.
Joaquim
Writer
Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Joaquim
Director
Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Neon Bull
Writer
Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
The Violin Teacher
Screenplay
Laerte, a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school at Heliopolis. His path is full of difficulties, but the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the teacher and the students open the door into a new world.
Orphans of Eldorado
Writer
A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...
The Man of the Crowd
Director
Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling with the anonimous crowd. Margo seeks relief in the virtual world of social networks where she struggles to establish long lasting relations with real persons.
Жила-была я, Вероника
Screenplay
Фильм открывает бесстыдная и невинная, живая, естественная как вода и воздух сцена группового секса на океанском пляже. Но это – грёза, фантазия, не имеющая прямого отношения к существованию заглавной героини, ведущей скромную и спокойную жизнь со стариком-отцом. Нет, в её жизни есть мужчина, есть секс, есть мечта – исцелять людей, и язык не повернётся назвать эту жизнь заурядной или бессмысленной...
Жила-была я, Вероника
Director
Фильм открывает бесстыдная и невинная, живая, естественная как вода и воздух сцена группового секса на океанском пляже. Но это – грёза, фантазия, не имеющая прямого отношения к существованию заглавной героини, ведущей скромную и спокойную жизнь со стариком-отцом. Нет, в её жизни есть мужчина, есть секс, есть мечта – исцелять людей, и язык не повернётся назвать эту жизнь заурядной или бессмысленной...
Ex-It
Editor
Freely inspired by the work Catatau, by Paulo Leminski, the plot begins with the historical hypothesis imagined by the poet from Curitiba: “What if René Descartes had come to Brazil with Maurício de Nassau?” The film materializes this hypothesis and joins the father of modern philosophy in his journey through the tropics. Under the effect of hallucinatory herbs, he investigates questions revolving around geometry and optics in the face of an absolutely strange world. Known for his famous sentence “I think, therefore I am”, Descartes faces his doubt towards phenomena reason doesn’t explain. René, Renatus, Re born.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Writer
José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Director
José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.
Crítico
Self
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Happy Desert
Writer
Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Writer
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Director
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Pool Acrylic Blue Hinterland
Director
A trip, sort of a daydream in the Brazilian badlands. Remote places reveal traditions and customs of a landscape that is at once primitive and contemporary, regional and globalised.
Wrath Time
Screenplay
Madame Satã
Writer
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
The Time I've Eaten Popcorn
Writer
Clandestina Felicidade
Screenplay
Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.
Clandestina Felicidade
Director
Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.
A Perna Cabiluda
Director
Maracatu, Maracatus
Researcher
The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.
Maracatu, Maracatus
Screenplay
The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.
Maracatu, Maracatus
Director
The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.
Punk Rock Hardcore
Writer
Punk Rock Hardcore
Director