João Marcos de Almeida

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Filmography Movies

Acting

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A Ópera do Cemitério

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Young gravedigger apprentice Deodato's job is at risk. The other gravediggers doubt his ability to do the work. His uncle Jaca tries to make him appreciate the job, but it's useless: the work distresses Deodato, who has artistic aspirations. He prefers to play the church organ in secret and wander around the cemetery writing poems. After fainting during one of the burials, he is called to the office, where he is confronted by Aloizio, the cemetery administrator...

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A Ópera do Cemitério

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We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars

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Strike on the red carpet.

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We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars

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Sunday

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A short documentary by Marco Dutra.

Necropolis Symphony

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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.

A Stem

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

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

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Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.

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Unlearning to Sleep

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Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.

My Calendar Girl

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A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.

Vera: Ontem e Hoje

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While Sergio Toledo's film Vera is widely recognized as pioneering for its portrait of a young transgender man struggling to find their place in Brazilian society, its narrative and lead performance by Ana Beatriz Nogueira are perhaps open to scrutiny in the year 2021. In this new video piece, Julia Katharine invites her good friends Claudia Campolina & Daniel Veiga, both of whom are active in the Brazilian film industry and cinephiles in their own right, for a discussion about how the film should be newly received today.

Meu amigo que trabalhou com Manoel de Oliveira, que fez 100 anos

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Miragem

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For a while, I doubted about what I felt, but the psychiatrist said I din't need any medicine. So, I decided to make a movie from it. I invited my mother and a great actress to participate. It was a ritual of turning into film what I didn't want to be just real life, or anymore. Mixing memory and invention, women and the cinema.

The Intrusion

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The name of Brazil’s biggest airport, Guarulhos, references the fact that it was built on indigenous territory. In a blend of realistic and stylised scenes, the film follows a member of the ground staff as she seeks her roots beneath the runway.

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The Intrusion

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