Mariano Mattos Martins

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

After 40 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Mojica Marins
CAST:  José Mojica Marins  •  Jece Valadão  •  Adriano Stuart  •  Milhem Cortaz

After 40 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Mojica Marins
CAST:  José Mojica Marins  •  Jece Valadão  •  Adriano Stuart  •  Milhem Cortaz

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum (2014)

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ana Carolina
CAST:  Fernanda Montenegro  •  Rui Unas  •  Marcantonio Del Carlo  •  Dagoberto Feliz

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ana Carolina
CAST:  Fernanda Montenegro  •  Rui Unas  •  Marcantonio Del Carlo  •  Dagoberto Feliz

Atlantic Garden (2012)

The film is a narrative starting from the story of Pierre and Syl, a couple that experiences the conflict between possession and freedom in a troubled relationship. Pierre is insecure and jealous, while Syl can’t even imagine that spending time with her friends ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jura Capela
CAST:  Sylvia Prado  •  Fransérgio Araújo  •  Hermila Guedes  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

The film is a narrative starting from the story of Pierre and Syl, a couple that experiences the conflict between possession and freedom in a troubled relationship. Pierre is insecure and jealous, while Syl can’t even imagine that spending time with her friends ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jura Capela
CAST:  Sylvia Prado  •  Fransérgio Araújo  •  Hermila Guedes  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage (2011)

A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadeu Jungle
CAST:  José Celso Martinez Corrêa  •  Maria Alice Vergueiro  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadeu Jungle
CAST:  José Celso Martinez Corrêa  •  Maria Alice Vergueiro  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

Under the Skin (2013)

Man and Woman are reunited after a long time. Sorrow and desire cannot break the silence. But that's okay: when words don't come, it's the body that speaks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Bandeira  •  Pedro Sotero
CAST:  Rita Carelli  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

Man and Woman are reunited after a long time. Sorrow and desire cannot break the silence. But that's okay: when words don't come, it's the body that speaks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Bandeira  •  Pedro Sotero
CAST:  Rita Carelli  •  Mariano Mattos Martins

Southern Sorceresses (2020)

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eliane Caffé  •  Beto Amaral  •  Carla Caffé
CAST:  Preta Ferreira  •  Ave Terrena Alves  •  Mariano Mattos Martins  •  Thata Lopes

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eliane Caffé  •  Beto Amaral  •  Carla Caffé
CAST:  Preta Ferreira  •  Ave Terrena Alves  •  Mariano Mattos Martins  •  Thata Lopes

Os Sertões - A Terra (2002)

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Celso Martinez Corrêa  •  Tommy Pietra
CAST:  Aneliê Schnaider  •  Anna Guilhermina  •  Ariclenes Barroso  •  Aury Porto

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Celso Martinez Corrêa  •  Tommy Pietra
CAST:  Aneliê Schnaider  •  Anna Guilhermina  •  Ariclenes Barroso  •  Aury Porto

The Skin You Don't Wear (2022)

Rô Nunes, an obese, gay comedian, is canceled by public opinion after a controversial video goes viral on social media.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonas Araújo
CAST:  Herton Gustavo Gratto  •  Denise Del Vecchio  •  Mariano Mattos Martins  •  Nicolas Trevijano

Rô Nunes, an obese, gay comedian, is canceled by public opinion after a controversial video goes viral on social media.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonas Araújo
CAST:  Herton Gustavo Gratto  •  Denise Del Vecchio  •  Mariano Mattos Martins  •  Nicolas Trevijano