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Fábio Baldo

Fábio Baldo

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Biography

Fábio Baldo is a Brazilian director and writer. His first feature film Time Was Endless (2016) had its premiere at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama). He has directed the award-winner short films Caos (2010), Da Origem (2011), Geru (2014) and The Fantastic Garden (2020) selected by important international film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Kiev-Molodist, Moscow, Bilbao-Zinebi, Montreal and Guadalajara. In 2015, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris held a retrospective of his films within the session Cinéma de Poche.

Known For

I Would Like to Be Enraptured, Muzzled, and on my back Tattooed
5.8

Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.

I Would Like to Be Enraptured, Muzzled, and on my back Tattooed

2015
Jonathas' Forest
4.1

Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at a roadside fruit stand, a place of contact with new friends and novelties from the rest of the world. They meet Milly, a visitor from Ukraine, and the native Kedassere. The group decides to spend the weekend at a campground in the jungle. Against his father's wishes, Jonathas will embark on this adventure. Seduced by Milly and the forest, he undertakes his most transforming journey.

Jonathas' Forest

2012
Obra
5.8

A young architect embarking upon his first major project is unexpectedly brought face to face with dark secrets from his ancestral past.

Obra

2014
Time Was Endless
4.4

In search of a new life, Anderson has left his Tikuna community in the Amazon forest for the bustling metropolis of Manaus. There he lives on the outskirts of the city with his sister and her sick child in a barren single room, and supports them through working various jobs. The environment is far from welcoming, but Anderson is driven by a burgeoning awareness of his two-spirited sexuality, which he feels can only be realized in the anonymity of the city. Anderson finds himself in limbo, questioning and rejecting certain tribal rituals, even as he fiercely defends his community and seeks to find peace with his identity.

Time Was Endless

2016
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Monument

2012
Caos
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Two men are subject to unexplained forces of nature when they decide to stop the machine.

Caos

2010
The Fantastic Garden
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An indigenous teacher implements the use of Ayahuasca in her classes in order to connect her students to another reality. During a ritual, one of the children comes upon a weird gear in the forest.

The Fantastic Garden

2020
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5.0

There’s a myth that suggests the ghost of the 16th-century Portuguese king Don Sebastiaan founded a magical kingdom on the island of Lençóis off the Brazilian coast after his defeat against the Moors. Five centuries later, a young Portuguese woman (and a small film crew) arrives there. The island is still enchanting.

The Bull

2015
Da Origem
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A Neanderthal has his routine shaken when he realizes that another wild group approaches his territory.

Da Origem

2011
Geru
6.0

On his 100th birthday, Zé Dias decides to trust his life to a camera.

Geru

2014
Tales of the Tide
7.0

Urban legends, memories of a family and where they live. A story about wolves, snakes and pigs in a favela complex.

Tales of the Tide

2013
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A Portuguese king who disappeared in the desert of Morocco in the sixteenth century comes forward. Under the threat of having to return to Portugal in the XXI century, Dom Sebastian reveals his whereabouts and the secrets of the kingdom he built over all these years in faraway Ilha de Lençóis in Northeastern Brazil.

The King

2014