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Éri Sarmet

Éri Sarmet

Directing

Biography

Éri Sarmet (he/they) is Brazilian trans non-binary writer, director, and producer from Niterói, Brazil, based in São Paulo. He wrote, directed and produced the short films Latifúndio (2017), the award-winning A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here (2021, Special Jury Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival), and Vollúpya (2024). Founder of the production company Excesso Filmes, Sarmet also wrote and produced the short film If I'm Here It Is By Mystery (2024), directed by Clari Ribeiro, which premiered at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Known For

Medusa
5.6

By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.

Medusa

2021
Fédro
4.0

Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, legendary director José Celso Martinez Corrêa for a first reading of Plato's Phaedrus.

Fédro

2021
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
4.8

Vange, a lonely biker, is enchanted by the relationship and freedom of four girls, with whom she spends a weekend where exchanges about lesbian experiences and culture are present, accompanied by a mutual affection that gradually establishes itself.

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here

2021
Altered Innocence Vol. 2
N/A

The next edition of Altered Innocence's collection of short films is finally here with over three hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films in two separately curated programs! Our 'Altered' program is a wild blast of strange and transgressive visions with films about virtual love dolls on a revenge tear, twinks eager to be annihilated, and a lesbian director obsessed with big boobs. The 'Innocence' program is a more tender and subtle program of loveliness with tales about brotherly love, modern transgender life, intergenerational relationships, and boys testing the limits of traditional masculinity.

Altered Innocence Vol. 2

2023
Cloro
5.0

Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.

Cloro

2014
Upon Her Lips: Girl Power
N/A

A young woman confronts her religious mother. A biker explores the night with a group of rebel dykes in Rio. A rapper in French Guiana comes to terms with her roots. Five young women reflect on life at a luxury spa in the French mountains.

Upon Her Lips: Girl Power

2025
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
N/A

New Rio, 2054 AD. The Order of Truth wreaks havoc on the streets, killing every being that has special powers. Renowned witch Dahlia is determined to beat the Order and assembles a clan of trans and queer people, each with their own supernatural talent. The fate of the city is in their hands.

If I'm Here It Is by Mystery

2024
Vollúpya
N/A

In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s.

Vollúpya

2024
Phryne
N/A

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.

Phryne

2012
Testemunha 4
N/A

A character, an actress and the passing of hours in a Holocaust interrogation. The film moves through the echoes of reality: representation, testimony, memory, fiction and investigates the limits between actress and character.

Testemunha 4

2011
Latifúndio
1.0

The body is not merely matter but a continual and incessant materializing of possibilities.

Latifúndio

2017