Diego Hoefel
Diego HOEFEL is a filmmaker, screenwriter and professor in the Film and Audiovisual department at Universidade Federal do Ceará. He has directed short films and screenplays for films including Permanências (2011), Tremor (2013) and Body of Crime (2016), which premiered at IFFR 2016. His feature-length directorial debut film Represa (2023) also has its world premiere at IFFR.
Filmography
Criador de Imagens (2007, short doc), Valparaíso (2009, short doc), New Town (2015, short), Represa/The Reservoir (2023)
Diego Hoefel at IFFR
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Represa
Diego Hoefel | 77' | Brazil | World premiere
A delicate, metaphorical exploration of the fraught links between land rights and the patriarchal family. -
Invitation to Dine with the Comrade Stalin
Ricardo Alves Jr, Gianfranco Rolando | 10' | Argentina | International premiere
Absurdism about two elderly sisters waiting for a guest. -
Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death
Ricardo Alves Jr | 75' | Brazil | European premiere
With compelling intensity, this debut film follows protagonist Elon as he searches for his missing wife in a huge Brazilian city. Viewers are inescapa