Director: Flávia Castro

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Birthday: 1965-08-15
Born in: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Biography: Flávia Castro (15 of August of 1965, Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian filmmaker. At the age of five, she had to leave the country with his parents, exiled by the military regime. She lived in Chile, Argentina, Belgium and France, returning to Brazil in 1979 with Amnesty. Still in France worked as scriptwriter and assistant of direction. She made his directorial debut with the short film Each with His Every Qual (2006). Her first feature, Diário de una Busca, received the award for best documentary at the 2010 Rio Festival. She also directed one of the episodes of A Aula Vazia, a project coordinated by Gael García Bernal. Her fictional debut 'Deslembro' premiered at Venice Film Festival.

Known for

Nise: The Heart of Madness

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
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Nise: The Heart of Madness

2016

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Unremember

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
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Unremember

2019

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The Fifth Monkey

When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
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The Fifth Monkey

1990

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Jaguar Man

Two moments in the life of Pedro. First in 1997, he lives with his family in Rio de Janeiro and works at Gás do Brasil, a company that is undergoing a tough restructuring process, with layoffs and early retirements. Soon, privatization will come. In the second moment, two years later, Pedro lives retired in his hometown Barbosa, in the company of his childhood memories, his dog and his girlfriend. By interweaving these two moments in time, we put ourselves in Pedro's skin and experience his fears and delights.
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Jaguar Man

2021

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Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45

Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movies, diary and popular songs excerpts, the documentary reassesses the legacy of the dictatorial period of Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945). Through the comparison and analysis of these heterogeneous records, produced for different purposes, from political propaganda to family celebration, the film explores the several layers of the political web of the Estado Novo, exposing its external inspirational sources, functionality and contradictions.
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Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45

2016

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Diário de Uma Busca

Porto Alegre, 5 October 1984, front page of a newspaper: "Extreme left-wing activist holds up the home of an ex-consul of Paraguay, then commits suicide". The extreme left-wing activist was the director's father. The ex-consul was an ex-nazi whose past her father was investigating.
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Diário de Uma Busca

2011

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