Matheus Moura
Production
Biography
Graduated in Social Communication with a major in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) and holds a degree specializing in Film Production from the EICTV in Cuba. He participated as a Bammer at BAM - Bogotá Audiovisual Market and was selected for Talents Guadalajara 2025. He recently filmed the short film ARRUDAS BOULEVARD, which premieres at the 30th REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival and was selected for the 23rd Vienna Shorts. He is currently developing the upcoming short film PROMETHEUS, currently in pre-production, which was selected for Cinéma de Demain – SFC | Rendez-vous Industry – Focus SCRIPT 2025, within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival. He is also developing the feature film ARRUDAS, selected for Produire Au Sud Fortaleza 2025, a semifinalist in the screenplay contest at FRAPA 2025, and selected and awarded at the 16th Brasil Cinemundi (Foco Minas Award). PURPLE DICTATORSHIP (DITADURA ROXA, 2020), his directorial debut and graduation short film, was selected for over 100 national and international festivals. The short was broadcast on free-to-air TV by Rede Minas and was acquired by Canal Brasil. His second short film, AT NIGHT ALL CATS ARE BROWN (À NOITE TODOS OS GATOS SÃO PARDOS, 2024), a Brazil-Cuba co-production, premiered at the 33rd Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival and was selected for the 47th Guarnicê Film Festival, the 35th São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Kinoforum, among others, and was also acquired by Canal Brasil. He is producing the feature film in development THE MESSAGE OF FIRE (O RECADO DO FOGO, dir. Mariana de Melo), selected for the 17th Nuevas Miradas, winner of the Líneas Argumentales award at the 2024 CineQuaNon Lab, and a participant in the 2025 CineQuaNon Lab Residency. He is also producing the feature film PATAXÓ PASSPORT (PASSAPORTE PATAXÓ, dir. Renaya Dorea), which was selected for FilmAfro Cartagena 2023 (Bolivia Lab Award - Rally Pitch), reached the final stage of the 2024 APAN Negras Narrativas Lab, was invited to Ventana Sur 2024, and was selected for the 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Animation Forum and the Alga Estudio Residencia 2026. As a short film producer, his work has been selected and awarded at festivals such as the Berlinale, Málaga, Cartagena, Havana, Hong Kong, Bogoshorts, Vienna Shorts, and others. He is a member of APAN (Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals) and API (Independent Producers Association), and is the co-founder of the production company URSANA FILMES and the distribution company MURMÚRIO FILMES.
Known For
1994, interior of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The inertia of Francisco's last days is broken by an unexpected visit.
Our Friend Romário
Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.
Purple Dictatorship
It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties preceding the show. A ruthless clock counts the minutes to the start of the show and the preparations of other drag queens reveal all the shortcomings of the debutant. Comments about the unknown girl can be heard whispered around the dressing room. The atmosphere is becoming denser as the successive drag queens finish their performances and everyone is awaiting the visiting debutant.
Babylonia
Javi shows up for the last time at a queer club where he works as a dancer, but he must deal with Castillo, a regular customer who resists the fact that he will never see him again.
To Kill a Man
A nocturnal portrait of Havana and its inhabitants through the songs they listen to and sing.
Songs to Die In Havana
The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the life of young Junior - who cannot wait to be emancipated from absolutely everything.
At night all cats are brown
Nilson, a guide at the Municipal Aquarium of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is one of those affected by the constant flooding caused by torrential rains and floods in the Arrudas River basins in the city, which is now facing the greatest flood in its history.
Arrudas Boulevard
Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
Anba Dlo
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SOFIA
Feel, Discover and Decide: Sensations of a pregnancy. An immersed body that now transforms.
Todavia Sinto
Through memories of her own past, the artist Meibe Rodrigues proposes a reflection on negritude and survival.
I Never Thought It Would Be Like This
Renata is a young peasant girl from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. She lives with Salomon, the evangelical pastor of the village, and two pregnant women. Salomon performs an exorcism in which he ends up killing a Guaraní man who supposedly invaded his lands. After the event, Renata wbegins to receive different demonic signs that put her faith and her surroundings to the test.