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Gustavo Hadba

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Beast Race · 2026

Beast Race

★ 6.92026

MovieActionScience Fiction

In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.

In the campaign that could change her career as fashion influencer, Paula Pratta only needs one essential item: her son. But he trades his business school in California for a permaculture institute in Amazon. With assistant Taylor, she sets off in search of the boy and finds a world without filters and much more than she expected, including the chance to reconsider what really matters in her life.

Yakuza Princess · 2021

Yakuza Princess

★ 6.12021

MovieActionThriller

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

Suspension Points · 2022

Suspension Points

★ 6.92022

MovieComedyRomance

André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he has been exchanging letters not with his long-time girlfriend, but with someone very close to her.

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree · 2025

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree

★ 7.12025

MovieFamilyAdventure

Chuck Billy has spent his life picking guavas from Jed’s guava tree. But now that Dr. Agripino is going to build a road that will take down the tree, Chuck and his friends are going to do everything they can to stop it.

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.

The Middle of the World · 2003

The Middle of the World

★ 6.82003

MovieDrama

Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.

After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.

Filmography

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Beast Race · 2026

Beast Race

★ 6.92026

MovieActionScience Fiction

In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.

Cinematography

Additional Photography

Yakuza Princess · 2021

Yakuza Princess

★ 6.12021

MovieActionThriller

Director of Photography

Suspension Points · 2022

Suspension Points

★ 6.92022

MovieComedyRomance

André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he has been exchanging letters not with his long-time girlfriend, but with someone very close to her.

Director of Photography

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree · 2025

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree

★ 7.12025

MovieFamilyAdventure

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Middle of the World · 2003

The Middle of the World

★ 6.82003

MovieDrama

Director of Photography

After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.

Director of Photography

Four Days in September · 1997

Four Days in September

★ 7.51997

MovieThrillerDrama

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.

Steadicam Operator

Brazilian Western · 2013

Brazilian Western

★ 6.32013

MovieCrimeDrama

When João goes to Brazil in search of a better life, he meets punk music enthusiast Maria and falls in love with her. But his involvement in the local drug trade makes him the target of a vicious drug lord.

Director of Photography

The Trace We Leave Behind · 2017

The Trace We Leave Behind

★ 4.82017

MovieThrillerHorror

A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.

Director of Photography

Eternal Amazonia · 2012

Eternal Amazonia

★ 9.02012

MovieDocumentary

At a time when the world is discussing the impact of human actions on the environment, Amazônia Eterna presents a critical analysis of how the world's largest tropical rainforest is understood and appreciated.

Director of Photography

In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.

Director of Photography

Paula and Marcos have just split up after 20 years together. He is editor-in-chief of a news program and she is a television presenter. They have differing opinions, but remain friends and work partners. But despite this, the relationship of respect between them does not prevent them from having different views on how they should conduct the edition of the best moments of the debate that the TV will show - and that can interfere in the choice of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters.

Director of Photography

A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.

Director of Photography

Lula, the Son of Brazil · 2010

Lula, the Son of Brazil

★ 5.52010

MovieDramaHistory

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

Cinematography

The Rogue's Trial · 2024

The Rogue's Trial

★ 6.62024

MovieComedyDrama

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.

Director of Photography

Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.

Director of Photography

All Love Songs · 2018

All Love Songs

★ 7.32018

MovieRomance

Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her husband Daniel. Albeit separated by time, both stories will cross paths in a unique way.

Director of Photography

Duetto takes place in 1965 and tells the story of 18-year-old Cora, a Brazilian from an Italian family who, after losing her dad in a tragic car accident, goes with her grandmother Lucia to Puglia, Italy, where her ancestral homestead still stands. Lucia, aiming to sell an old family land lot, reencounters her sister Sofia and her husband Gino, whom she hasn't spoken to in 40 years.

Director of Photography

God Is Brazilian · 2003

God Is Brazilian

★ 6.22003

MovieAdventureComedy

God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest.

Camera Operator

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.

Steadicam Operator

My Sweet Orange Tree · 2012

My Sweet Orange Tree

★ 7.42012

MovieDramaFamily

Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.

Director of Photography

Urban Snap-Shots · 2008

Urban Snap-Shots

★ 4.92008

MovieDramaComedy

Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst Paula and her troublesome daughter Melanie, and stage star in crisis Lise.

Director of Photography

After her best friend Ícaro is found dead, aspiring rapper Malu sets out to unravel the truth behind his mysterious passing.

Director of Photography

The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) · 2026

The Rogue's Trial (TV Series)

★ 8.02026

SeriesComedyDrama

Director of Photography