Marco Dutra

Marco Dutra graduated in São Paulo University's Film School. He wrote and directed several short films with his university friend Juliana Rojas. "O Lençol Branco" and "Um Ramo" were part of the Festival de Cannes selection and won awards around the world. His first feature, "Trabalhar Cansa", also premiered in Cannes at the Un Certain Regard selection. "Quando Eu Era Vivo" is his second feature film. Marco also works as a writer, editor and composer. He is part of the production group Filmes do Caixote.

Works

Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans

Close to turning forty and away from his job as a librarian due to depression, Marcos needs to take care of Baby, his sister's pet dog. Isolated in an apartment in the city center, Marcos relies on the support of analyst Dr. Juliana R., who sees him in therapy sessions. Together, they look for ways to deal with the grief over the death of his ex-boyfriend, Pedro, and the arrival of a new love, Gabriel. Baby, a special hairless dog of Aztec origin, will redefine his relationship with the world of the dead and the living as well.

Release Date:2025-01-28

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Uma Montanha em Movimento

The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.

Release Date:2025-01-25

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Bury Your Dead

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.

Release Date:2024-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Nobody Leaves Alive

“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a trend this year among the maestros of cinema. The film is inspired by true events that took place in the last century in the “Colonia” hospital in Brazil. Whoever didn’t fit the standards of society, or their family’s perception of it, was locked away, tortured, and killed. There were altogether more than 60,000 victims. Hope dies last, and some of the inmates don’t give up the fight. We’re reminded of film classics such as “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” or “Alcatraz”.

Release Date:2024-07-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Tinnitus

Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.

Release Date:2023-07-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:11

Raquel 1:1

Raquel is a religious teenager who moves with her father to a small town in search of a new life. During her first days there, she has a mysterious experience which leads her to believe she’s been given an important and controversial mission by God.

Release Date:2023-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:8

Colônia

Release Date:2021-06-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

All the Dead Ones

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.

Release Date:2020-12-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Noturnos

Release Date:2020-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Quietness

The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by the way they guide their existence based on worldly concerns.

Release Date:2018-04-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Good Manners

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

Release Date:2017-08-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:227

The Wound

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.

Release Date:2017-04-19

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:55

My Only Earth Is in the Moon

Sergio answers 36 questions to make Gabriel fall in love. Did you know Glauber was a Pisces?

Release Date:2017-01-25

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:2

The Silence of the Sky

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

Release Date:2016-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Client Notorio

Vote Count:68

Sunday

A short documentary by Marco Dutra.

Release Date:2015-06-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Necropolis Symphony

In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.

Release Date:2014-11-28

Department:Sound

Job:Original Music Composer

Vote Count:20

The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty

Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them.

Release Date:2014-11-06

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:1

Estátua!

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Release Date:2014-08-21

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2014-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:82

When I Was Alive

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.

Release Date:2014-01-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:26

We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison

After heartbreaks and professional disappointments on planet Earth, Julio and Clara decide to flee together into space.

Release Date:2013-08-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Sleeping Hammock

Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.

Release Date:2013-01-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Doppelgänger

Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her pesonality.

Release Date:2012-05-19

Character:Extra

Vote Count:10

The Comforting Hand

At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.

Release Date:2012-01-02

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:2

My Country

A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.

Release Date:2011-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Hard Labor

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.

Release Date:2011-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:38

To Sleep Quietly

Luis is an 8 year old boy. Dora, his nanny, passed away a few weeks ago. When Dora reappears hidden in Luis's closet, the boy must make great efforts to quench the nanny's hunger.

Release Date:2011-08-26

Department:Sound

Job:Original Music Composer

Uma Primavera

At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.

Release Date:2011-07-12

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:1

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 Date:2011-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

A Sutil Circunstância

A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.

Release Date:2011-01-01

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.

Release Date:2010-11-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Náufragos

Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.

Release Date:2010-05-31

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:1

The Shadows

In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.

Release Date:2009-08-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Eva Nil, Cem Anos Sem Filmes

Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.

Release Date:2009-08-16

Character:João Raymundo Ribeiro

Eye of the Storm

The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Areia

Release Date:2008-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

A Stem

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

Release Date:2007-05-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Sentimental Memories of a Footstep Sound Editor

His job was to place every little step sound in sync with the video. Looked like it wouldn't take him very far.

Release Date:2006-08-26

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:2

A Criada da Condessa

Tales of the Countess' maid, who helps her with a dark secret

Release Date:2006-06-01

Concert Number Three

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.

Release Date:2004-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

The White Sheet

A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.

Release Date:2004-06-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Nightwalker

A young woman has to face the silence and horror of the empty house after the suicide of her brother.

Release Date:2003-05-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Open Diary of R.

Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Espera

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Nossos Parabéns ao Freitas

The story of Freitas, a repressed and conservative family man, who has a tragic surprise on his birthday.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:2

Dancing Queen

Release Date:1999-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Man 1

Three Shots, Nine Shots

Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.

Release Date:1999-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Buyer