Helvécio Marins Jr.
Helvécio MARINS JR. (1973, Brazil) has made several short films, which together collected more than 30 awards. He was also one of the curators of the International Short Film Festival of São Paulo. Since 2002, he has worked together with Clarissa Campolina, with whom he made several short films and documentaries. Swirl is their feature debut. Marins co-directed the documentary Lutar, lutar, lutar (2021) with Sérgio Borges.
Filmography
2 Homens/2 Men (2001, short), Busílis (2002, short, co-dir), Alma nua/Naked Soul (2004, instal), Nascente/Nascent (2005, short), Trecho/Passage (2006, short doc, co-dir), Nem marcha nem chouta/Nor a Trot or a Canter (2009, short), Desassossego (filme das maravilhas)/Neverquiet (Film of Wonders) (2010, segment), Girimunho/Swirl (2011, co-dir), Fernando que ganhou um pássaro do mar/ Fernando Who Received a Bird from the Sea (2013, short), Querência/Homing (2019), Lutar, lutar, lutar/Strive, Strive, Strive (2021, co-dir)
Helvécio Marins Jr. op IFFR
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Lutar, lutar, lutar
Sérgio Borges, Helvécio Marins Jr. | 110' | Brazil | European premiere
Passionate documentary by two renowned filmmakers about their love of Belo Horizonte’s Clube Atlético Mineiro: the team of Reinaldo and R -
Passage
Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina | 16' | Brazil | International premiere
Beautifully filmed, endless and aimless journey by a Brazilian walker. -
Nascente
Helvécio Marins Jr. | 15' | Brazil | -
Poetic short film in which the camera takes the road to the sea. Nominated for the Tiger Awards for Short Film. -
2 homens
Helvécio Marins Jr. | 5' | Brazil | -
Short film about two men sitting eating in a restaurant, but in the end they are put out with the rubbish. -
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… -
The Sky Above
Sérgio Borges | 72' | Brazil | International premiere
A transsexual academic, a Hare Krishna football supporter and an indolent would-be writer (working on nine books at once). Docu-fiction follows three -
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 -