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Partner of the independent production company Pela Madrugada. She worked as editor in over forty films (features and shorts). She was awarded the Grand Brazilian Film Award - Best Editing for Fiction (2015) and Best Documentary Editing (2009); ABC award for Best Editing Fiction (2015); among many others.
She made five short films. Her work has been shown at festivals in Rotterdam, Uppsala, Cine//B, Alcine, Brasilia, Cine PE and awarded at festivals in Tabor, DocLisboa, Rio Film Festival, Short Film, Santa Maria da Feira, Recife window, Cine Scheme New.
As a producer she was responsible for more than twenty short films. She collaborated as Curator, programmer and jury in festivals and shows in Brazil and Portugal.
Most Popular Karen Akerman Trailers
Total trailers found: 50
24 August 2023
Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a boy idol who has lived through many carnivals.
06 October 2022
The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife.
25 July 2019
Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.
09 November 2023
Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents.
03 October 2013
Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.
01 January 2006
French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?
09 July 2025
Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest.
07 May 2026
Cleo, a 43-year-old astronomer who is pregnant and emotionally fragile, is surprised by a visit from Nalu, her half-sister of Indigenous descent.
09 June 2022
A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.
08 December 2012
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare.
01 September 2016
If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but.
04 July 2015
Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life.
30 August 2007
Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.
01 January 2009
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
01 January 2009
In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.
01 January 2018
Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.
02 April 2015
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
28 October 2010
Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital.
13 September 2009
On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the Amazon rain-forest.
01 January 2008
Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it, ending up at a party with very peculiar guests.
28 January 2019
Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town.
10 December 2020
Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo.
25 August 2018
Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead.
18 July 2024
Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit.
16 May 2024
Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago.
28 October 2015
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component.
02 April 2026
After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around the mysterious figure of his grandfather, a whale skeleton and a city that wants to bury the past at any cost.
19 November 2003
When humans become animals and animals become humans.
07 August 2012
On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch.
11 June 2026
The rise of MC Sabrina, a young Brazilian funk singer, from her beginnings in Morro dos Prazeres to the electrifying favela parties that pulse through the heart of Rio de Janeiro.
05 April 2025
In the wake of a dream, João Vieira Torres sets off to find the children that his grandmother Aurora, a midwife, helped deliver.
17 May 2018
The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer.
02 September 2005
In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her.
30 June 2021
Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor.
28 October 2015
A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a metallurgist who works at Volkswagen, a motorcycle courier and a railway worker.
08 April 2022
On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness.
27 February 2021
Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live.
12 October 2024
Child solidarity is stronger than death.
16 June 2022
In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato.
22 October 2020
After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea.
15 May 2009
In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could.
05 May 2011
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music).
13 October 2023
Hated by the Greeks, detested by the Trojans, Helena lives a peaceful life in Guaratiba, a fishing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.
17 September 2021
Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after several years away.
20 September 2018
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things.
12 September 2025
Tom is a Brazilian immigrant in search of the American dream. Josh is a writer chasing his next story.
28 September 2013
Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship in a Berlin Park.
23 September 2013
Urban legends, memories of a family and where they live. A story about wolves, snakes and pigs in a favela complex.
22 October 2023
In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.
