Catharina Felix
Directing
Biography
Catharina Felix is a director, screenwriter and producer graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2020 and from the New York Film Academy in 2015. She began as a production assistant in the feature films O Amor Dá Voltas (2016) and Simonal (2019) and was the assistant director of the documentary series Amor de Bicho (2020) for TV Mov. At the same time, she carried out her own projects as director and screenwriter of the short films Teatro dos Rostos (2019), Aruã e a Sombra (2020), selected for the Mostra Outra Rio and for the contest “Arte Como Respiro” by Itaú Cultural, Lindos de Morrer (2021), Top25 Sundance Institute Adobe Fellows Program and Can't See Heaven From Here (2021) selected for Crossroads International Short Film Festival.
Known For
Beautiful paper bags have been an essential part of their relationship. Now, the boyfriend wants to remove them to see each other's faces. However, the girlfriend isn't ready for this next step
Theater Of Faces
Deadly Gorgeous is a documentary about the importance of beauty even after death. Mixing fiction and reality, the film explores the world of corpse makeup artists, cemeteries and a couple that need to think about how their own funerals would be like.
Deadly Gorgeous
Beauty is as powerful as a drug and our eyes are addicted to it. Due to an electronic device in her head, Nora grew up not knowing if she was attractive or not. At 18, she goes to Rio de Janeiro, turns off the device and discovers that she is extremely beautiful. Nora becomes enamored with herself that she loses sight of reality, entering a dangerous path with devastating consequences.
Eye Of The Beholder
Narratives are tales that unintentionally define our personality. In the case of women, being beautiful is the only way. The film shows how we learn to be obsessed by the visual itself, and how the highest compliment to a woman is always beauty.
Always Beautiful
Forced to become a mother, Helena plans to run away with her boyfriend and abandon her son. However, on the day of the escape, the boy gives up and leaves her alone, desolate. Determined to keep on the run, Helena embarks on her theory that her entire life has been a lie and she has never had a child.
Can't See Heaven From Here
In the next day, there was no one else in town. Aruã only had his own shadow to keep him company. Aruã and the Shadow is a film in poem/music format that talks about self-knowledge and learning to live in peace with our own darkness.