IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

      NL

      Camilo Cavalcante

      Camilo CAVALCANTE (Recife, 1974) studied journalism at the University of Pernambuco and finished his course in screenwriting at San Antonio de Los Baños International Film and TV School in Cuba in 1996. His short films have won him countless awards (over 120) at film festivals around the world. Together with Cláudio Assis (Bog of Beasts, Rat Fever) he made the road movie documentary Eu vou de volta (2007). Cavalcante also works as a director of theatre plays, and wrote a manifesto entitled Cinemacabradapeste. The History of Eternity is his first feature film.

      Filmography

      Hambre hombre (1996, short), Os dois velhinhos (1996, short), Alma cega (1997, short), Ocaso (1997, short), Amorte (1999, short), Matarás (1999, short), Leviatã (1999, short), O velho, o mar e o lago (2000, short), A história da eternidade (2003, short), Rapsódia para um homem comum (2005, short), O presidente dos Estados Unidos (2007, short), Ave Maria ou Mãe dos Sertanejos (2009), Eu vou de volta (2007, doc, co-dir), A história da eternidade/The History of Eternity (2014)

      Camilo Cavalcante at IFFR