
Thaís de Almeida Prado
Director · b. 1981 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazi
Thais de Almeida Prado is a filmmaker, scriptwriter, multidisciplinary artist and actress. Thais' work permeates the interdisciplinary boundaries between cinema, and other arts, often in collaboration with other artists. Thais is one of the Talents of Projeto Paradiso, participated at TFL Next Comedy (Torino, Italy); Panorama Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Doc.Lisboa Arché Lab (Lisbon, Portugal), Serie Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Talents BA (Buenos Aires, Argentine). Thaís received the "Special Arché Jury Award, for the best project in writing and development stage" to "The Brazilwood Women", a film project that explores the desire on canvas. As part of "As Mulheres do Pau-Brasil’s" research Thais directed the short-films “Empire” and “My Part”.
Movies10
MovieDramaAfter theirs father's death, Carl and Ana decide to go to Germany to rescue his unknown story. There, not only will they discover familiar tracks, they will confront and recognize themselves, to move forward in their lives.
MovieThe film is a poetic testimony of these women's relationship with their city: being foreigners, discovering their roots, trying to create art, experiencing urban violence, dealing with space, architecture and movement.
Nowhere
2021
MovieComedyJoana, a non-binary person with a vagina, meets Xtopher, an effeminate gay man, in the FKK area of a Berlin lake. Then, they decide to go to the cruising area together, where they experience new sensations.
Cucumber/Knife
2024
Movie5.8DocumentaryFantasyMarcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and gay hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.
Movie5.2CrimeDramaJorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Luz nas Trevas: A Volta do Bandido da Luz Vermelha
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
2012 · 6 votes
Movie4.8ComedyFlávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.
MovieDramaA film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
MovieDocumentaryEssay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.
MovieDramaNew York City attracts Jane and Carlos, like so many others, with the promise of a better life. That's why they've left their home country, Brazil. Yet as immigrants, they don't have all the opportunities that the American dream implies. Their search for a new and better life represents that of all the immigrants who dare to attempt a fresh start in another country. It is also the story of changes taking place in United States and Brazil. The fictional story about Jane and Carlos in this experimental film is intertwined with the personal experiences of the film team, which reports in interspersed episodes about their own immigration and that of others they've researched.
Calidris
2019
MovieScience FictionFrom a simple question, we travel through futuristic imaginaries. a game, an experiment. Cats, children, extemporaneous beings all in correlation in this short film directed by Thais de Almeida Prado and Fernanda Sanchez Valdivieso. Cactus: generally succulent and edible. large flowers, nocturnal flowering, pollinated by insects, moths, bats. wide anatomical adaptation. dry and hot environments. deserts. semi-arid, caatingas, cerrados. dimorphic branches, reduced leaves, photosynthetic. certain species develop ephemeral leaves, which last for a short period of time while a new bud is still in its early stages of development. psychoactive agents. ruins of civilization.
Series1
TVMysteryDramaNoturnos
2020