Gabriel Mascaro

A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva

Gabriel Mascaro

Marcio Campelo

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.

Um Lugar ao Sol

Gabriel Mascaro

Through dialogues with the owners of penthouses in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife, High-Rise explores the social and cultural mindset of the elite, and the phenomenon of the 'verticalisation' of the Brazilian cityscape. This is a film about height, status and power.

Doméstica

Gabriel Mascaro

Dilma dos Santos Souza, Flávia Santos Silva

Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.

KFZ-1348

Gabriel Mascaro, Marcelo Pedroso

In 1965 a VW Beetle is sold in São Paulo, Brazil. Forty years later, the car ends up in a Recife scrapyard in the northeast, with the license plate KFZ-1348. The documentary “The Beetle KFZ-1348” presents the stories of this car through its eight owners, whose lives show a unique portrait of a country.

Avenida Brasília Formosa

Gabriel Mascaro

Avenida Brasília Formosa provides a sensorial insight into the contemporary reality of a neighbourhood that was tranformed following the removal of families to make way for the construction of a coastal highway. This is about film of encounters, memories and desires.

As Aventuras de Paulo Bruscky

Gabriel Mascaro

Paulo Bruscky, Gabriel Mascaro

Entering the virtual world of “Second Life”, Brazilian visual artist Paulo Bruscky meets film director Gabriel Mascaro. Mascaro, an ex-film film director from north-east Brazil currently lives and works making machinima (virtual short films) in the “Second Life”. Paulo hires Gabriel to make a machinima documentary of his adventures as a newcomer to the “Second Life”.

Neon Bull

Gabriel Mascaro

Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.

Ventos de Agosto

Gabriel Mascaro

Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel do Santos

Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time.

Divine Love

Gabriel Mascaro

Dira Paes, Júlio Machado

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.

Cinetracts '20

Želimir Žilnik, Sheilah ReStack

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.

Não é Sobre Sapatos

Gabriel Mascaro

The film shows the images made by the police during demonstrations of 2013 (Brazil). In times of anonymous faces, what to do with the feet?

Making of Boi Neon

Maeve Jinkings, Juliano Cazarré

Making of Neon Bull