Fernanda Pessoa Trailers

Fernanda Pessoa is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist, working primarily on documentary, experimental cinema and videoinstallations. PhD candidate at University of São Paulo (ECA/USP) researching women’s experimental cinema made in Latin America, she holds a MFA in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, under Philippe Dubois’ direction. In 2017, Pessoa released her first feature documentary "Stories our cinema did (not) tell”, which participated in several international festivals and is currently on Brazilian Netflix. Her second long documentary “Arid Zone” received an Honorable Mention at Dok Leipzig. She was a Berlinale Talents in 2019. Her work has been screened in festivals like IDFA, RIDM, DOC NYC, DocLisboa, Brasilia Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Cinélatino Toulouse, and in institutions as BIENALSUR, REDCAT/CalArts, IMS (Institut Moreira Salles) São Paulo’s Museum of Sound and Image, Paço das artes, among others.

Most Popular Fernanda Pessoa Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

Swing and Sway Trailer (2023)

16 November 2023

Two friends respond to the challenges of the present by connecting through a playful provocation. Separated by America’s hemispheres, one in Brazil and the other in the U.

Same/Different/Both/Neither Trailer (2020)

20 November 2020

In a period of isolation, far away from each other, 2 friends reconnect through video-letters, inspired by the poetic gaze of women experimental filmmakers: Marie Menken, Joyce Wieland, Gunvor Nelson, Yvonne Rainer.

Solidarity Trailer (2022)

07 May 2022

In 2021, hundreds of thousands of people took over the streets in Brazil, in the midst of a pandemic, to protest against the Bolsonaro government.

Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell Trailer (2017)

06 March 2017

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

Order Prevails Trailer (2022)

03 April 2022

Is the revolution alive? Can we envision alternatives to a capitalist world? Did socialism fail? An internationalist (time) travel through seven countries that had revolutionary experiences in the 20th century is followed by a voice reciting Rosa Luxemburg’s last text, written one day before she was murdered in 1919.

Arid Zone Trailer (2019)

29 October 2019

In 2001, Fernanda was a 15-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student in Mesa, Arizona, considered the most conservative city in the United States.

V.O por F.P Trailer (2026)

09 April 2026