Paulo Menezes
Directing
Paulo Menezes is a Brazilian filmmaker currently studying directing at the DFFB. He has worked on various documentaries for the BBC and Al Jazeera in the UK. His film Lolo (2019), about gay kids navigating a heteronormative world, screened in more than 200 festivals around the world. His next short Pommes Paradies premiered at Filmfest Dresden and was selected by AG Kurzfilm as part of their Cannes catalog in 2021. His short It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live (2021) screened in many festivals including Uppsala, BFI Flare, and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg to name a few. At Filmfest Dresden the film took home the German Film Critics Award as well as the LUCA award in 2022.
Filmography
TheatersUnknown Author
2026 · Movie
Francisco Perdido
2024 · Movie
Paradise Europe
2023 · Movie
Editor Contra
2022 · Movie
When The Trees Come
2022 · Movie
Male Shorts: International V4
2022 · Movie
It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live
2021 · Movie
The Male Gaze: Hide and Seek
2021 · Movie
Lolo
2019 · Movie
Não Vai Ter Sangue
Movie