Juliana Rojas
Juliana ROJAS (1981, Brazil) and Marco Dutra have been directing short films since college. Two of these short films have been screened in Cannes. Marco and Juliana are also part of the cooperative Filmes do Caixote, São Paulo. In 2011, their debut film Hard Labor had its world premiere in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. Good Manners (2017) premiered in Locarno and won the prestigious Silver Leopard Award. Rojas has also had solo projects such as Necropolis Symphony (2014), which won the award for best feature film (Critics’ Jury) at Gramado Film Festival.
Filmography
O lençol branco (2004, short, co-dir), Concerto número três (2004, short, co-dir), Um ramo (2007, short, co-dir), As sombras (2009, short, co-dir), Neverquiet (Film of Wonders) (2010, omnibus film, co-dir), Hard Labor (2011, co-dir), Pra eu dormir tranquilo (2011, short), O duplo/Doppelgänger (2012, short), A ópera do cemitério, (2013, TV), We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison (2013, short, co-dir), Marcia Barbosa em A origem da inspiração (2013, short doc), Desculpa, dona madama/Sorry, Mrs. Madam (2013, short, co-dir), Sinfonia da Necrópole/Necropolis Symphony (2014), As boas maneiras/Good Manners (2017, co-dir), A passagem do cometa/The Passage of the Comet (2017, short), Terrores urbanos (2018, TV series, 2 episodes), Kissing Game (2020, TV series, 2 episodes)
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Juliana Rojas op IFFR
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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… -
A passagem do cometa
Juliana Rojas | 20' | Brazil | International premiere
Halley’s Comet, a Brazilian abortion clinic and women who are trying to take care of each other. Let’s hope the comet isn’t the only -
Good Manners
Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas | 135' | Brazil | None
The nurse Clara gets a job as nanny for the rich and pregnant Ana, who suffers from insomnia. Her delivery at full moon ends fatally…