Aurélie Oliveira Pernet
Directing
Biography
Born in 1990, Aurélie Oliveira Pernet first trained in graphic design before undertaking a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema at HEAD - Geneva. She graduated in 2014 with her short film Meccarillos, notably selected at Indie Lisboa, Nara and Tous Courts. Graduating with a Master’s degree in History and Aesthetics of Cinema from UNIL in 2019, she has since been developing her film projects. Her latest short film "As Sacrificadas" premiered in 2022. She is currently writing her first feature film
Known For
In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the avowed anti-militarist is dragged by two fearless reporters on a round trip through the entire country.
Riverboom
A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro Cabeleira (By Flávio), which proposes different possibilities for being a woman nowadays.
Que Mulheres Serão Estas?
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair and the desire to escape.
The Left Behind
Jules Guarneri grew up in Villars, with two adopted siblings, in a chalet haunted by the ghost of his mother who died when he was 20, and where his solitary father still lives; the latter presents him one day with his filmed diary. A cumbersome gift that the “filmographer” uses to make it resonate with his own images, thus forging his own emancipating path towards adulthood.