
Acting
Sérgio Mascouto is an actor, psychologist, and content creator with a degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio). His artistic career is built at the intersection of humor, psychoanalysis, and independent cinema, exploring characters marked by strangeness, anguish, and social criticism. He was the creator and host of the comedy interview show Psicanalhice, in which he combined clinical listening, irony, and improvisation, establishing a unique space for dialogue between psychology and pop culture. His film debut as an actor was in the short film Status Quo (2023), directed by Pedro Valle, where he played the character Vizinho Júlio, a role that marked his entry into the audiovisual world and quickly stood out for the unsettling and ambiguous tone of the performance. The character would gain even more depth by becoming one of the protagonists of the feature film Quando o Sangue Flui (When the Blood Flows) (2025), co-directed by Cainã de Paulo and Pedro Valle, a duo with whom Mascouto maintains an ongoing artistic collaboration. In both films, his performance explores psychological discomfort, everyday grotesqueness, and the tension between normality and collapse. In addition, Sérgio acted in the short films Entre o Corpo e a Alma (The Last VHS), directed by Pedro Lopes and Haroldo Mourão, and Ananke, by João Medeiros and Michael Townson, expanding his presence in the Brazilian independent circuit, always associated with sensory, existential narratives with a strong symbolic charge. Moving between humor, experimental filmmaking, and psychological horror, Sérgio Mascouto has built a filmography marked by his search for borderline characters who push the boundaries between sanity, desire, and breakdown.

The unexpected visit of a peculiar neighbour. Two individuals merging in the routine rupture. The illness, the cure and the destruction. Status Quo

In Ipanema, a couple of vampires seduce their victims with promises of sexual encounters through letters. But their lives are turned upside down when a stranger, fascinated by the idea of anthropophagy, replies to one of their letters, leading to an unlikely outcome.

A group of documentary filmmakers go to an old asylum to make a film, but the film may never end.


Judas Silva, an unorthodox private detective specialized in "surrealist cases", finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy involving a promising bossanova artist, her missing music producer, a sadistic enemy and his masochistic followers. Cainã de Paulo's second feature film, co-written with Pedro Valle. Now in pre-production.

In a dystopian future, the population is prohibited from having sexual relations. However, this measure will only come into effect at 12:00 a.m.
Paula Sangria, a woman on the run after murdering her husband meets Agnes, a foreigner seeking disappearance and erotic annihilation, as they wander through a fictional winter city inhabited by grotesque figures, sexual repression and moral decay. While their relationship oscillates between desire, exploitation and violence, a disturbed sensationalist journalist obsessively stalks them, projecting his fetishes onto their bodies and crimes. What unfolds is a fragmented odyssey through a corrupt territory where intimacy becomes spectacle and survival itself turns obscene.
