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Cainã de Paulo

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

Estática
8.0

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

2023
A Outra Perna Debaixo da Mesa
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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

2025
JUDAS SILVA EXPOSES DETAILS OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE
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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

2025
When the Blood Flows
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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

2025
“Quack”
10.0

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

“Quack”

2023
VAZIO
N/A

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

VAZIO

2023
Identidade
N/A

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

2026
Judas: in Danger!
N/A

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!

Flammable Digital Film
N/A

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

Flammable Digital Film

2024
Coração Do Mar
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Coração Do Mar

Who The Porra is Judas Silva
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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

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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

Fishing Space
N/A

A head wanders aimlessly through space in search of its body.

Fishing Space

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N/A

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

Tempos Modernos
N/A

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

Tempos Modernos

2024