Screenplay: Petra Costa

Direction Petra Costa

Cast Elena Andrade · Li An · Petra Costa

Synopsis Elena moves to New York with the dream of becoming a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding and she also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Years later, Petra goes to New York to look...

Direction Petra Costa · Lea Glob

Cast Olivia Corsini · Serge Nicolai · Pancho Garcia Aguirre · Shaghayegh Beheshti

Synopsis The documentary is a journey through the labyrinth of an actress's mind during the course of her pregnancy.

Direction Petra Costa

Cast Dilma Rousseff · Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · Michel Temer · Eduardo Cunha

Synopsis Once a nation crippled by military dictatorship, Brazil found its democratic footing in 1985 and then, in 2002, elected a hugely popular political disrupter: steel-worker-turned-activist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Under his watch, 20 million Brazilians were lifted out of...

Direction Petra Costa · Moara Passoni

Cast Petra Costa · Jair Bolsonaro · Lula da Silva · Luis Inacio

Synopsis When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begins? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip that faith leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including...

Direction Petra Costa

Cast Gabriel Andrade · Vera Andrade

Synopsis In Undertow Eyes, Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on...