The short films and videos by S&eacute;rgio BORGES (1975, Brazil) have been screened at film festivals all over the world. With his first feature, <strong>The Sky Above</strong> (2010), he won five awards including Best Picture at Brasilia Film Festival. Borges is co-founder of the film collective Teia. The documentary <strong>Lutar, lutar, lutar</strong> (2021) was co-directed with Helv&eacute;cio Marins Jr.

Sérgio Borges

A transsexual academic, a Hare Krishna football supporter and an indolent would-be writer (working on nine books at once). Docu-fiction follows three 'ordinary' men aged about 30 who play their own urban existence. Cinema as a metaphor for who we can be. It has already won five prizes at a leading film festival in Brazil.

IFFR 2011

Sky Above, The

Tiger Awards Competition

The Sky Above

Helvécio Marins Jr.

Passionate documentary by two renowned filmmakers about their love of Belo Horizonte’s Clube Atlético Mineiro: the team of Reinaldo and Ronaldinho.

Atlético Mineiro may not have the most trophies, but few clubs have such a dedicated army of supporters. After a century of bad luck on the field and injustice off it, in 2013 this people’s club from Belo Horizonte finally won the Copa Libertadores. Now it also has the film it deserves.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Sérgio Borges

Filmography

Sérgio Borges at IFFR

The Sky Above

Lutar, lutar, lutar