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Eliane Caffé

Eliane Caffé

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Biography

Eliane Caffé (born 1961) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Born in São Paulo, Caffé got a Psychology degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1985 and a master's degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1992. Caffé directed some short films in the beginning of her career. Her first feature film, Kenoma, from 1997, was exhibited at the 55th Venice Film Festival, and won the Soleil d'or in the 20th Biarritz Film Festival, among other awards. Her second feature was Narradores de Javé, from 2003. In 2016, she released Era o Hotel Cambridge, a docufiction about a squatted hotel in downtown São Paulo.

Known For

Southern Sorceresses
3.7

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.

Southern Sorceresses

2020
The Cambridge Squatter
7.1

The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.

The Cambridge Squatter

2017
Kenoma
6.5

In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.

Kenoma

1998
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9.0

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter.

Enigma de um Dia

1996
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N/A

After a tragic crime of passion, Artur leaves the depths of Brazil on a journey in search of redemption. Early on, he meets Matuim, the anarchic captain of an old vessel, and comes to befriend him through a series of tense and comic situations.

The Midday Sun

2010
Filhos do Mangue
N/A

A violent and unruly man appears injured and without memory in a riverside community, who accuses him of robbery and tries, in vain, for him to recover his memory and return the money. In a popular trial, a plot involving domestic and gender-based violence, human trafficking and embezzlement of public funds comes to light. Sentenced to isolation, he seeks a new meaning for his life.

Filhos do Mangue

2025
The Storytellers
7.2

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.

The Storytellers

2003
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Caligrama is a poetic essay built from the repertoire of sounds, gestures, images, words and objects of the street men who inhabit the city of São Paulo.

Caligrama

1995
Cristo Procurado
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Cristo Procurado

1990
A Margem da Paisagem
N/A

The film shows the creative process of a land art artist Jean Paul Ganem through his path over the last 20 years. The documentary touches everbody by its transformative power of the art and by revealing recreated landscape in agricutural fields in France and Canada, in the suburbs of Paris and Montreal, and now, also in the heart of São Paulo.

A Margem da Paisagem

2013
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Two thieves break into an imaginary house, where strange and absurd situations transform the reality of theft into two different attitudes towards the unknown.

Arabesco

1990
Sky With No Eternity
N/A

The film explores the real and imaginary narratives of the quilombola communities of Alcântara / MA who have lived in conflict for more than thirty years with the intrusion of the Brazilian Space Project.

Sky With No Eternity

2011