Manuela Dias

Manuela Dias
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Director), 6 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Deserto Feliz
Jéssica, 15 years old, lives in a village in the Northeast of Brazil. She can't bear her fathers cruelty and escapes to Recife, a metropole. But after getting involved with prostitution and drugs, she dreams of a better life in Germany.
O Céu Sobre os Ombros
Blurring borders between documentary and fiction, this film portrays a few moments from the lives of three men from Belo Horizonte: a transsexual prostitute and academic, a Hare Krishna soccer fan and a would-be writer. (imdb)
Transeunte
The film follows Expedito, a brooding 65-year-old. Each day, he brings flowers to his mother's grave, returns to his apartment to take his medicine and watches construction workers create a gigantic, noisy monstrosity across the street. Then he wanders, gazing obsessively at beautiful women and listening through his earphones to the radio, as the alienating chaos of Rio de Janeiro registers on his nervous system. (!fIstanbul)
A Floresta Que Se Move
Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. (imdb)
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Love Film Festival
An actor and a screenwriter meet at a short film festival and struggle to keep up their affair as films, festivals and other partners hamper their burgeoning romance. (imdb)
Above Justice
Four ordinary people under arrest in one single night in different stories of crime, justice and revenge that will intertwine and forever haunt the lives of those involved. (imdb)