Djin Sganzerla

Djin Sganzerla

Born: February 25, 1977
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Movies for Djin Sganzerla...

Helena de Guaratiba
Title: Helena de Guaratiba
Character: Afrodite
Released: October 13, 2023
Type: Movie
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Capitu and the Chapter
Title: Capitu and the Chapter
Character: Sancha
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions – particularly when jealousy raises its head. Adapted from the Brazilian classic novel 'Dom Casmurro' (1899) by Machado de Assis as an ironic/philosophical essay on poetry and jealousy, and featuring fragments of Bressane’s previous works.
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O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
Title: O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
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Joy Is the Acid Test
Title: Joy Is the Acid Test
Character: Jarda Ícone Jovem
Released: January 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
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Mulher Oceano
Title: Mulher Oceano
Character: Hannah Visser / Ana Bittencourt
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Title: Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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My Calendar Girl
Title: My Calendar Girl
Character: Moça do Calendário / Iara
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.
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Polaris
Title: Polaris
Character: Laura
Released: August 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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Ralé: The Lower Depths
Title: Ralé: The Lower Depths
Character: Nástia
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
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Ornament and Crime
Title: Ornament and Crime
Character: Kera
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
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The Mayor
Title: The Mayor
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new country.
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Love Film Festival
Title: Love Film Festival
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
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Poder dos Afetos
Title: Poder dos Afetos
Character: Nastia
Released: October 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out a magical and original reality throught its characters.
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Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Title: Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Title: Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Character: Jane
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
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As Doze Estrelas
Title: As Doze Estrelas
Character: Maria da Fé
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
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O Gerente
Title: O Gerente
Released: January 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.
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The Shadows
Title: The Shadows
Character: Ana
Released: August 21, 2009
Type: Movie
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
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Meu Nome é Dindi
Title: Meu Nome é Dindi
Character: Dindi
Released: November 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near bankruptcy and fights for survival.
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Fake Blonde
Title: Fake Blonde
Character: Brida (Briducha)
Released: November 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
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Canção de Baal
Title: Canção de Baal
Character: Joana
Released: October 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
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Conceição - Autor Bom é Autor Morto
Title: Conceição - Autor Bom é Autor Morto
Released: July 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are not very satisfied with the results of it.
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Meu Mundo em Perigo
Title: Meu Mundo em Perigo
Character: Irmã de Isis
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Elias sees his world threatened when his ex-wife, one recovering junkie, asks for the guard of their son. Fito is in desperation for losing his father because of Elias. Isis, who hides in a vagabond hotel, can be the salvation for Fito and Elias.
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A Werewolf in the Amazon
Title: A Werewolf in the Amazon
Character: Carol
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.
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O Signo do Caos
Title: O Signo do Caos
Character: Lolita
Released: September 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.