Felipe Bragança (Director)

Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree)

Documentary and staged scenes mix in this very personal story of a family in the suburbs of Rio, through the memories of a backyard, a giant tree, and the woman who planted it.

Release Date2025-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Anjo Loiro com Sangue no Cabelo

Release Date2021-11-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Futuro Beach

Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

Release Date2014-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count83

A Yellow Animal

Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.

Release Date2020-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Heleno

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freitas. The sumptuous black and white cinematography reflects the chic life of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s as it fell under the spell of sports royalty. Heleno was no doubt one of the most popular players of his time for his bravura in the field and magnificent goal-scoring that lead the Botafogo team to the top and himself into a vicious downward spiral.

Release Date2011-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count42

Claun

Release Date2013-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Love for Sale

In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.

Release Date2006-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count59

The Joy

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.

Release Date2010-05-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)

An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.

Release Date2011-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobCreative Producer

Vote Count2

Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.

Release Date2017-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Makunaíma XXI

Brazil, 21st Century. An indigenous boy is born in an isolated village in the north of the Amazon. His mother and brothers believe that he is the reincarnation of Makunaíma, the creator of the world we live in, and that he would have returned to save the planet from the apocalypse. Seeking to understand about his origins and his mythical identity, the young Makunaima meets Ci, the mother of the forest, with whom he falls in love. When Ci disappears, Makunaíma decides to cross the country after the man who took with him the last memory of his great love: a magical seed with mysterious powers.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sultry

Rio de Janeiro, 2016: the city simmers in anticipation of the Olympic Games. Lawyer Ana defends the interests of residents of homes to be replaced by stadiums, roads and luxury hotels. Is the heat affecting her perception or is the struggle becoming visible on her skin?

Release Date2018-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Eye of the Storm

The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects.

Release Date2009-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Swirl

Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies.

Release Date2012-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

His Name (The Clown)

They met in the summer, in the rain. A film of carnival and silence. His Name (The Clown) is a surface film – based on newspaper news and daily life in large Brazilian cities, but without any direct link to any real event. Violence, joy and silence are worked on in the film in order to build a space where characters are as real as they are intangible – in a narrative of short marked sequences, in which a whirlwind of events mixes with a stitching of fragments and gaps: He is a quiet man and divides his time between his violent work in downtown Rio de Janeiro and his boarding house in Catumbi. She is the girl who appears in his life, on a rainy afternoon – and soon things start to go by very quickly. A film of carnival and silence, of love and anger – of apathy and will. A chronicle of the conflicts and festivities of a city sewn between hills, forests and cement. A tribute to Rio, perhaps?

Release Date2004-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Howling Carnival

It's carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Saulo is a gay werewolf who visits the enchanted lands of beauty and chaos in search of new prey. It's on the last night of the carnival festivities that he meets Gustavo, a new crush who could be his last prey. “Carne Fresca” is a carnival fable about werewolves and hunters in a marvelous city.

Release Date2024-08-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Fernando Who Received a Bird from the Sea

A simple Portuguese-Brazilian song. Fernando spends his time in Porto in the neighborhood of Fontainhas between a small house and a local café. A parrot reaches him from Brazil, which evokes paradise in his imagination. This gives rise to a Portuguese-Brazilian correspondence. A game of mirrorings develops over the exchange of letters between the two friends, in which ideas of each other’s country are reflected.

Release Date2014-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bring me the Head of Carmen M.

Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.

Release Date2019-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

The Scape of the Monkey Woman

Two girls star in this musical drama amazing road! A van, a beach, a reed, very homesick, girls in flower perched at gas stations… and a little music.

Release Date2009-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

A Whale Can Be Torn Apart Like a Samba School

It’s Carnival in Rio. A young man wanders through the streets of the city and the remains of the huge cardboard parade floats. Driven by grief over the bankruptcy of his samba school, he’s also haunted by memories of his dead father and a lost love. An impressive cinematic experiment composed of fragments of the present and the past, developed as part cinema, part art installation in the tropical setting of Rio.

Release Date2025-07-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Fuja dos meus Olhos

“They see black man and think it`s a lion.” Documentary images and staged scenes are mixed to tell the memories and dreams of three war refugees living in a square in Berlin downtown.

Release Date2015-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Por Dentro de Uma Gota Dágua

Who was it that caught me inside a drop of water? Mario Quintana

Release Date2003-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Zahy - Uma Fábula do Maracanã

Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and storyteller from his village, takes a new look at the place where he lived and resisted.

Release Date2012-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1