In this interview, Zezé Motta shares her experience playing Francisca da Silva de Oliveira in “Xica da Silva” (1976), revealing how she built one of Brazilian cinema’s most iconic characters through physicality, moral contradictions, and the balance between satire and human truth.
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Evgenia Alexandrova, cinematographer of “The Secret Agent” (2025), discusses the decision to film Brazil’s dictatorship in broad daylight, working with Wagner Moura on set, and what it means to operate the camera to be fully present.
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João Londres discusses “Klaustrophobia” (2025), a psychological horror that premiered at the Rio Film Festival. The director recounts how the project was born during the pandemic and transformed in editing, details the opening sequence shot, and shares Brazilian film recommendations.
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Leonardo Feliciano shares the behind-the-scenes of “Araby’s” cinematography, revealing how he built the film’s visual language over three years of discontinuous shooting. Cinematographer of “White Out, Black In” and “Mars One”, he balanced naturalism and detachment to tell Cristiano’s story.
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Maurílio Martins discusses “O Último Episódio”, a film set in 1991 on the outskirts of Contagem born from personal memories of Laguna neighborhood. The director talks about narrative layers, adult conflicts and the attempt to capture the impossible moment of childhood farewell.
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Tropical Alien spoke with André Antônio about “Salomé”, winner of eight awards at the 2024 Brasília Film Festival. In the interview, the director explores his investigation of desire through an aesthetic that blends realistic relationships with extreme visual artificiality, using neon colors and references to American film noir.
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In Tropical Alien’s third interview, directors Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges reveal how “Suçuarana” was born from reading Henry James in 2012, going through 12 years of development to become a road movie about Dora’s search for lost land.
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In Tropical Alien’s second interview, we spoke with director Guto Parente about his feature film “A Strange Path” (2024), a deeply personal film about the relationship between father and son, written during the pandemic as a way to reconnect with shared cinematic memories.
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In Tropical Alien’s first interview, directors Rafaela Camelo and Emanuel Lavor delve into the creation and production of the short film “The Beads”.
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