
Cainã de Paulo
Directing
Biography
Cainã de Paulo is a Brazilian screenwriter and director passionate about the art of film. Deeply influenced by the underground filmmaking of José Mojica Marins and Sam Raimi, as well as the narrative experiments in the works of David Lynch and Rogério Sganzerla. He delves into multiple genres, from horror to comedy and science fiction. His passion for film flourished during his childhood, as he grew up reading comic books and watching movies at backyard screenings. At the age of nineteen, he wrote and directed his first feature film “When The Blood Flows” with his writing and directing partner Pedro Valle, with whom he opened "CHUVA ESCURA" an independent production company to open up space for emerging filmmakers.
Known For

A conspiratorial and reclusive young man believes he is being watched by aliens after experiencing a series of strange dreams and mysterious noises coming from the radio on his office.
Estática

Frederico and Julieta share a young marriage, caught between crises and reconciliations. When Julieta’s behavior suddenly changes, Frederico searches for answers — only to discover that under the table, a third pair of legs might change everything.
A Outra Perna Debaixo da Mesa

Judas Silva, the private detective specializing in surrealist cases, exposes intimate details of his personal life and shocks the audience.
JUDAS SILVA EXPOSES DETAILS OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE

In Ipanema, a couple of vampires seduce their victims with promises of sexual encounters through letters. But their lives are turned upside down when a stranger, fascinated by the idea of anthropophagy, replies to one of their letters, leading to an unlikely outcome.
When the Blood Flows

A detective lurks around a pond as she plots the destruction of the creatures behind the chaos.
“Quack”

A painter struggles with an empty canvas as a void grows inside of her.
VAZIO

During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.
Identidade

Judas Silva, an unorthodox private detective specialized in "surrealist cases", finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy involving a promising bossanova artist, her missing music producer, a sadistic enemy and his masochistic followers. Cainã de Paulo's second feature film, co-written with Pedro Valle. Now in pre-production.
Judas: in Danger!

Unfinished 12 second short film about the contrast between digital and film photography.
Flammable Digital Film

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Coração Do Mar

Judas Silva welcomes a guest into his apartment and together they must find “The Idea” hidden in the heart of Copacabana.
Who The Porra is Judas Silva
Paula Sangria, a woman on the run after murdering her husband meets Agnes, a foreigner seeking disappearance and erotic annihilation, as they wander through a fictional winter city inhabited by grotesque figures, sexual repression and moral decay. While their relationship oscillates between desire, exploitation and violence, a disturbed sensationalist journalist obsessively stalks them, projecting his fetishes onto their bodies and crimes. What unfolds is a fragmented odyssey through a corrupt territory where intimacy becomes spectacle and survival itself turns obscene.
Sangria

A head wanders aimlessly through space in search of its body.
Fishing Space
Pedro accompanies his girlfriend, Flor, to a dinner party with his school friends. The nostalgic atmosphere soon turns into tension when they unearth a time capsule from 10 years ago. Inside, letters and a newspaper article suggest that Lydia Leal's death may not have been a suicide and accuse the guests of being involved.
A Cápsula

An edited version of Modern Times of an experimental nature, reminiscent of Peter Tscherkassy's collage works.