Gabriel Mascaro — Director (6)

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High-Rise (2009)
Um lugar ao sol IMDb TMDB
other title: Um lugar ao sol
Penthouse residents of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife open up their homes to reveal their thoughts on social inequality, politics, and the world that surrounds them. As well as discussing more intimate subjects such as their desires, fears, insecurities, prejudices and personal histories. This is a film about height, status and power.

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The Blue Trail (2025)
O Último Azul
★ 7.0 25 ratings
other title: 天空的另一面 / O Último Azul …
In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.

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Ebb and Flow (2012)
Douban
other title: A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva
Rodrigo is a young deaf man from Recife, northeast Brazil who works installing car stereos in a small dealership on the outskirts of town. Despite his deafness, sound penetrates his day to day life and he harnesses its vibrations, allowing it to pulse through his veins.

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Divine Love (2019)
Divino Amor WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 5.0 9 ratings
other title: 디바인 러브 / Divino Amor …
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

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八月来风 (2014)
Ventos de Agosto Douban
other title: Ventos de Agosto / August Winds
《霓虹牛》导演加布里埃尔·马斯卡罗的剧情长片处女作,提名第67届洛迦诺国际电影节(2014)金豹奖。Shirley离开大城市,回到了海滨小镇照顾她的奶奶。在那里,她是当地一个椰子种植园拖拉机驾驶员。她喜欢摇滚乐,梦想着成为一个纹身艺术家,她感觉自己被这个小小的沿海村庄束缚着。她向Jeison吐露了心声,Jeison也在椰子农场工作,在工作之余还会潜水抓龙虾和章鱼。八月通常是当地热带风暴冲破海岸线的季节,一个风能专家来到村里,研究热带风暴。在一次涨潮和狂风大作之时,一个惊喜的发现带着Shirley和Jeison开始一段直面生与死、失与得、风与海的神奇旅程。

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Neon Bull (2015)
Boi Neon Douban
★ 6.4 11 ratings
other title: 霓虹牛 / Boi Neon …
巴西東北的草原邊,日日上演暴烈的牛仔競技戲碼。男人負責照顧後台牛隻,女人身兼情色秀場舞孃,白天在塵土黃沙中揮汗,夜裡飽漲情慾開始橫流。他們共同養育小女孩卡卡,以卡車和道路為家,遊牧到下一個演出地點。當地正蓬勃發展時尚紡織工廠,閃亮亮片、精緻布料帶來新的野心,卻也威脅著他們的邊緣生存,孤單的靈魂、生活的未來想像,都在原始慾望的漩渦中四處衝撞,掙扎著尋找出口。