Helena Ignez Movies

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.

Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty...

Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

In an old, dilapidated mansion in downtown São Paulo, an old Shakespearean actor exiled from the stage lives with his ghosts. In his bed,...

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes...

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

An old man is tired of celebrating his birthday.

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.

Marcos returns home after a few years away.

In this animated fairy-tale Filly, a lesbian fairy with nimble fingers, seduces women by day dressed as a boy. But at night something strange happens...

The human body in 5 parts.

A person locked in the room.

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a...