The Brazilian Cut
Directors from Brazil
The Brazilian Cut is an independent Baablon curation dedicated to Brazilian directors whose work we recognize for its authorial vision, cinematic power and ability to engage with the world. These are filmmakers we admire and who, in our view, represent part of the strength capable of expanding the presence of Brazilian stories, perspectives and cinema on the international stage.
The directors presented here have no professional, commercial or representation relationship with Baablon. We are not their agents, representatives or intermediaries, and professional contact with each of them must be made directly with the director or their representatives. Their presence on this platform means solely that we believe in their work and want to help make it better known in Brazil and around the world.
For Baablon, promoting these filmmakers is part of a voluntary commitment to the development of Brazilian cinema.
19 directors
Marcus Ligocki Jr.
Marcus Ligocki Jr. tells stories about people who fight to claim their rightful place in the world with dignity, preserving their autonomy, identity, and ability to coexist with others without losing themselves.
Brasília · DF
Lino Meireles
Lino Meireles directs the memory of Brazilian cinema itself, films that recover forgotten voices and stories to tell, through them, the country's cultural and political formation.
Brasília · DF
Iberê Carvalho
Iberê Carvalho directs the disconnect between parents and children, between past and present, between collective euphoria and the loneliness of being hunted by it, films that use nostalgia and social conflict to reveal the country.
Brasília · DF
Santiago Dellape
Santiago Dellape directs the everyday bureaucracy of Brasília as the stuff of adventure and fantasy, films that revisit 80s nostalgia to turn public service work into neighborhood science fiction.
Brasília · DF
Emiliano Ruschel
Lagoa Vermelha · RS
Gil Baroni
Brazilian director Gil Baroni explores themes of identity, belonging, and freedom, blending humor, fantasy, and social commentary in narratives that challenge conventions.
Guarapuava · PR
Eduardo Albergaria
Eduardo Albergaria directs the hope that survives amid the fractures of popular Brazil, musical biographies that move through the outskirts, dreams and resilience, in search of what unites us more than what divides us.
Rio de Janeiro · RJ
Renato Barbieri
Renato Barbieri directs Brazil's hidden depths, Maroon communities, Indigenous peoples, Afro Brazilian cultures and stories of resistance, in pursuit of an immersive cinema where the real crosses into the body of whoever is watching.
Brasília · DF
Priscilla Brasil
Priscilla Brasil directs the Amazon from within, the sacred and the profane, the mining fields and the lives left behind, the forest and its silenced peoples, in pursuit of a cinematic language still waiting to be invented.
Belém · PA
Bruno Bini
Bruno Bini directs fear and violence as they move through the outskirts of Cuiabá, films that cross ordinary lives amid social tension, in pursuit of a genre cinema rooted in his own territory.
Cuiabá · MT
Jimi Figueiredo
Jimi Figueiredo explores what lies beneath the surface of what appears to be under control, including surveillance, corruption, and memory. His stories reveal what emerges when social façades begin to crumble.
Brasília · DF
Cibele Amaral
Brasília-based director and screenwriter, Cibele Amaral has built a career in cinema through fiction films spanning drama and comedy, across both short and feature-length formats.
Brasília · DF