Carolina Markowicz
Directing
Biography
Carolina Markowicz is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She has written and directed two feature films and six short films, which have screened at over 400 film festivals, including Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, SXSW, and San Sebastián, and have received more than 100 awards. She has participated in several international development labs, including TIFF Talent Lab, Berlinale Talents, and the Locarno Filmmakers Academy. Indiewire highlighted the latter program as showcasing "some of the world's most exciting new filmmakers."
Known For
A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.
Nobody's Looking
In the Brazilian countryside, a family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch have their lives changed when a shady nurse offers a diabolical deal: put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin who urgently needs a place to hide.
Charcoal
Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set in Sarajevo.
The Factory
Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop.
Toll
The story of Jonathas, an orphan who had been adopted and then "returned" due to his effeminate mannerisms.
The Orphan
Prostitutes of old age make their living in Praça da Luz, in São Paulo. Unusual and surprising accounts of five women who reveal in detail their experiences in all these years of profession.
69 - Praça da Luz
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O Funeral
A brief story of a guy who's obsessed about having sex with ETs.
Long Distance Relationship
When three people die, their first step post-mortem is meeting a death consultant who allows them to each ask one question about anything (so many people die per day so only one question each is possible). As we start to learn about their connection, we begin to think of how arbitrary - or not- death really is. A dark humorous drama about humankind behavior and beliefs- before and after death.
Postponed
The film is about the life story of Javier Juárez García, an Argentinian scale model figure who decided to live in São Paulo to seize the city’s real state boom. After a betrayal, he decides to change his life and work in architectural models around the world. But he never forgets about his real goal: to come back and take revenge.
Tatuapé Mahal Tower
Anka, 12, and Yelena, 45, know each other from the neighborhood grocery store where they spend their day, one inside, the other outside. One evening, an unexpected visit provokes an incident that both women will suffer from.