Cláudio Assis
Know for: Directing
Born: 1959-12-19
Place of birth: Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
Also know as:
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos (2019)
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual...
Love Film Festival (2014)
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian...
About Cinema (2015)
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials...
Critic (2008)
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...
Passages: Travelling in and out of Film through Brazilian Geography (2019)
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio...
Acqua Movie (2019)
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...
Cafi (2021)
It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of...
Bog of Beasts (2006)
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to...
Mango Yellow (2002)
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Rat Fever (2012)
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social...
Big Jet (2015)
The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup...
Bog of Beasts (2006)
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to...
Mango Yellow (2002)
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Mercy (2019)
The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local...
Texas Hotel (1999)
An overlook at some urban characters in the city of Recife through their passages in a hotel.
Mango Yellow (2002)
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Punk Rock Hardcore: Alto José do Pinho É do Caralho! (1995)
Punk Rock Hardcore: Alto José do Pinho É do Caralho! (1995)
Rat Fever (2012)
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social...
Maracatu, Maracatus (1995)
The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the...
Maracatu, Maracatus (1995)
The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the...
Ouro Velho, Mundo Novo (2020)
Filmmakers Cláudio Assis and Lírio Ferreira go on a journey through the frontier between the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba,...