Writing
Sérgio Oliveira
Born March 3, 1960 · Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died February 23, 2026 · aged 65
Sérgio Oliveira (1960–2026) was a prominent Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer from Pernambuco, recognized as a key figure in contemporary Brazilian cinema. Born in Caruaru, he developed a career defined by aesthetic experimentation and a deep connection to Northeastern roots, often collaborating with director Renata Pinheiro through their production company, Aroma Filmes. His most no…
Known For
Praça Walt Disney · 2011Praça Walt Disney
★ 5.82011
MovieDocumentary
A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. The real place, a neighborhood in Recife, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed
Faço de Mim O Que Quero · 2009Faço de Mim O Que Quero
2009
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Porcos Corpos · 2003Porcos Corpos
2003
MovieDrama
When humans become animals and animals become humans.
King Car · 2022King Car
★ 5.92022
MovieScience FictionDrama
Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.
Amazônia Oktoberfesta · 2025Amazônia Oktoberfesta
2025
MovieDocumentary
A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.
Dry Movie · 2005Dry Movie
★ 6.72005
MovieDrama
Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Schenberguianas · 2007Schenberguianas
2007
MovieDocumentary
The freedom of free thought in a visual discourse that blends art with science, biography with transcendence, and geography with destiny. Inspired by the legacy of physicist Mario Schenberg.
SuperBarroco · 2008SuperBarroco
2008
MovieDrama








