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Vanessa Gusmão

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Valley of SoulsValley of Souls · 2022
Valley of Souls
★ 5.72022
MovieDrama
A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons and thrown their bodies into the river.
O Amor Dá TrabalhoO Amor Dá Trabalho · 2019
O Amor Dá Trabalho
★ 6.22019
MovieComedyRomance
The selfish Ancelmo dies and ends up trapped in limbo. To secure his place in heaven, he must practice a good deed and play cupid, as he is tasked with uniting a man and a woman with widely differing personalities.
We Still Have the Deep Black NightWe Still Have the Deep Black Night · 2019
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
★ 5.12019
MovieDrama
Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
Elegy of a CrimeElegy of a Crime · 2018
Elegy of a Crime
★ 8.72018
MovieDocumentary
Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director’s mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. “Elegy of a Crime” is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan’s “Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Faced with impunity, the film plunges into a dizzying journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.
A Landless WomanA Landless Woman · 2025
A Landless Woman
2025
MovieDocumentary
A poetic hybrid documentary following Auritha Tabajara, an Indigenous writer, artist, and lesbian woman, as she reflects on memory, displacement, and identity. Through intimate voiceover and encounters with landscapes shaped by colonial violence, Auritha revisits her childhood, her forced separation from ancestral land, and the erasure imposed on Indigenous peoples in Brazil. The film also addresses her experience as a queer Indigenous woman, exploring how her homosexuality intersects with cultural belonging, exclusion, and self-affirmation. Moving between personal testimony and collective history, the film transforms loss into resistance, reclaiming voice, desire, and presence while reaffirming the inseparable bond between land, body, and storytelling.
Nalu on the BorderNalu on the Border · 2017
Nalu on the Border
★ 6.92017
MovieDrama
Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

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A Landless WomanA Landless Woman · 2025
A Landless Woman
2025
MovieDocumentary
A poetic hybrid documentary following Auritha Tabajara, an Indigenous writer, artist, and lesbian woman, as she reflects on memory, displacement, and identity. Through intimate voiceover and encounters with landscapes shaped by colonial violence, Auritha revisits her childhood, her forced separation from ancestral land, and the erasure imposed on Indigenous peoples in Brazil. The film also addresses her experience as a queer Indigenous woman, exploring how her homosexuality intersects with cultural belonging, exclusion, and self-affirmation. Moving between personal testimony and collective history, the film transforms loss into resistance, reclaiming voice, desire, and presence while reaffirming the inseparable bond between land, body, and storytelling.

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