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Clarissa Campolina

Clarissa CAMPOLINA (1979, Brazil) works as a director, screenwriter, editor, producer and teacher. Her debut feature film, Swirl (2011), premiered at Venice Film Festival, and screened at over 50 festivals including Toronto and San Sebastian. Her other shorts and features – While we are here (2019) e Faraway Song (2022) – have screened at film festivals around the world, such as Rotterdam, Locarno, BAFICI, Marrakech, RIDM, Art of the Real. In 2015, DAAD – Artistic Residency Program held a retrospective of her work at Arsenal Cinema (Berlin, Germany).

Filmography

(selection) Onde você está (2006, short), Trecho/Passage (2007, short doc, co-dir), Notas flanantes/Wandering Notes (2009, short doc), Desassossego (filme das maravilhas)/Neverquiet (Film of Wonders) (2010, segment, co-dir), Adormecidos/Asleep (2011, short), Girimunho/Swirl (2011, co-dir), Odete (2012, short, co-dir), O porto/The Harbor (2014, short doc, co-dir), Solon (2016, short), Those Who Wander (2018, short), Enquanto estamos aqui/While We Are Here (2019, co-dir), Volleyball Match Under The Shadow Of The Volcano (2022, Co-Dir), Faraway Song (2022), Suçuarana (2024, co-dir)

Clarissa Campolina op IFFR

  • Suçuarana

    Clarissa Campolina, Sérgio Borges | 85' | Brazil | European premiere

    In search of a piece of family land, a woman hitchhikes through Brazil’s mining region.

  • Passage

    Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina | 16' | Brazil | International premiere

    Beautifully filmed, endless and aimless journey by a Brazilian walker.

  • Acácio

    Marília Rocha | 88' | Angola | International premiere

    According to many she is the best young Brazilian documentary maker and she has made a film about the artist Acácio Videira and his wife,…

  • Odete

    Clarissa Campolina, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Luiz Pretti | 16' | Brazil | None

    Disturbing, hallucinatory portrait of a difficult mother-daughter relationship whose true nature is only revealed after the mother’s death.

  • Enquanto estamos aqui

    Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti | 75' | Brazil | World premiere

    Poetic, fictionalised film diary about globalisation and migration, brought back to the essence of human micro-politics: desire, fear and hope.

  • O porto

    Clarissa Campolina, Julia De Simone, Luiz Pretti, Ricardo Pretti | 21' | Brazil | World premiere

    Rio de Janeiro as we don’t know it. The Harbour feverishly reveals the city’s various layers, hounded by permanent progress.

  • Françoise

    Rafael Conde | 22' | Brazil | International premiere

    Intimate, beautifully acted film about a meeting between a strange girl and a man at a bus station.

  • Girimunho

    Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina | 90' | Brazil | None

    Deep in the hinterland of Brazil, in the sleepy town of São Romão, magic and everyday events are juxtaposed in this beautiful debut to c

  • Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)

    Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande, Karim Aïnouz, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Gustavo Bragança, Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina, Caetano Gotardo, Raphael Mesquita, Leonardo Levis, Carolina Durão, Andrea Capella, Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas, Collective Film by 14 directors | 65' | Brazil | International première

    A collective film, coordinated by Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande (see also The Joy). They sent a letter of ‘unease’ to filmmakers in which they…

  • Like Water Through Stone

    Marília Rocha | 85' | Brazil | International premiere

    In a remote mountain area in the beautiful Minas Gerais, Brazil’s best documentary maker right now follows four friends at the end of their adolescenc