Priscila Nascimento
Directing
Biography
Priscila Nascimento is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, film editor and sound artist, graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from UFPE. Her work explores memory, landscape, archives and affective heritage, drawing from experiences in Brazil’s countryside and the outskirts of Recife. She directed and contributed to films such as Noite Fria, Sonho em Ruínas and Notícias de São Paulo, screened at national and international festivals. Her cinema moves between the intimate and the political, crafting sensory, experimental narratives with a strong authorial voice.
Known For
Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Brazilian cinema in the 2010s.
Our Mother was an Actress
Riva returns to Brazil and finds herself more alone than ever. Flavia has no time to feel lonely. Their lives intersect and they dream around the soccer fields.
Luazul
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Dente
Between work at a call center, trips to the bar and daily news, nothing is out of place in Marta’s world. Between monotony and a breakdown of reality, an attempt to talk about violence while fleeing it.
Noite Fria
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Fim de um mundo
Director Lincoln Péricles revisits memories recorded since he had access to cameras and microphones, putting together a film in the form of a rap mixtape, combining sounds and images from Brazilian cinema and denaturalising the images of work.
Meu Amigo Pedro Mixtape
Determined to preserve local heritage, Jurema, a photographer, confronts her fears when an experimental audiovisual project puts her best friend at risk. To protect a guardian of the neighborhood's memory, she confronts heirs of former plantation owners who manipulate the past and joins forces with a local scientist to recover the memory before it is erased.
Rúinas da Memória
A discussion with her family brings a daughter an occasion to ponder the past. Presence and absence lead to an immersion into memories, and ultimately, to the future.
News from São Paulo
A dream brings to light the untold story of a Black great-grandmother.