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CURUPIRA E A MAQUINA DO DESTINO

filmed on the roads transamazônica, BR-319 and the real village of realidade, in the south of amazonia, curupira e a máquina do destino is the encounter between the entity curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.




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short documentary 

directed by janaina wagner
produced by 
le fresnoy
cinematography by carine wallauer












festival
2022 Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes [Brazil]
2022 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival [Brazil]
2022 Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy [Finland]
2022 Bucharest Short Film Festival [Romania]
2022 Cabíria Festival [Brazil]
2022 25FPS Festival [Croatia]
2022 Cork International Film Festival [United Kingdom]
2022 Valdivia International Film Festival [Spain]
2022 Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival [United Kingdom]
2022 Philadelphia Film Festival [United States]
2022 Kino Pavasaris – Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania
2022 Glasgow Short Film Festival [United Kingdom]
2022 Las Palmas International Film Festival [Spain]
2022 Vienna Shorts International Short Film Festival [Austria]
2022 Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba [Brazil]
2022 Short Waves Festival [Poland]
2022 Festival ECRÃ [Brazil]
2022 Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival [Portugal]




prize
2022 Best Short Film (New Directions) Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival [Brazil]
2022 Acquisition Prize for television channel Canal Curta! - Cabíria Festival [Brazil]
2022 Best Short Film - Las Palmas International Film Festival [Spain]