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Cristina Amaral

Cristina Amaral

Editing

Biography

Cristina Amaral is an experienced Brazilian film editor best known for her partnership with directors Carlos Reichenbach and Andrea Tonacci.

Known For

Fake Blonde
6.1

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Fake Blonde

2007
Sonhos Tropicais
9.3

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Sonhos Tropicais

2001
Cidade; Campo
6.5

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.

Cidade; Campo

2024
Girls from ABC
6.0

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Girls from ABC

2003
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
5.0

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020
Two Streams
6.2

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

Two Streams

1999
A Hora Mágica
6.3

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.

A Hora Mágica

1998
Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
N/A

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books.

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa

2019
Confiscated Goods
5.6

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

Confiscated Goods

2005
Person
8.2

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.

Person

2007
Buccaneer Soul
6.4

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Buccaneer Soul

1993
Glaura
N/A

A musical about a woman who hates music.

Glaura

1995
Abaixo a Gravidade
2.0

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big city.

Abaixo a Gravidade

2019
São Silvestre
7.1

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The movie recreates the experience of running the race in 2011.

São Silvestre

2013
The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes
7.3

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes

1997
Almoço Executivo
7.0

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

Almoço Executivo

1996
Sem Asas
N/A

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

Sem Asas

2019
Ôrí
8.6

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Ôrí

1989
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10.0

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Bodas de Papel

2008
Dry Ground Burning
6.2

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara’s women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of radical political resistance on behalf of ex-cons and the oppressed.

Dry Ground Burning

2023