HONESTINO
Hybrid Documentary | Brazil | 2025 | 85 min
Directed by Aurélio Michiles
Produced by Mercado Filmes
Co-produced by Estrangeira Filmes
Cinematography by André Michiles
Starring Bruno Gagliasso
Distribution: Pandora Filmes
Awards: Best Editing — Troféu Redentor, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (2025)
Audience Award — Best Brazilian Feature, Fest Aruanda (2025)
Abraccine Award — Best Feature Film, Fest Aruanda (2025)
Vladimir Carvalho Award — Best Documentary, Fest Aruanda (2025)
Best Editing — Fest Aruanda (2025)
Selections: 27th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival Première Brasil — Documentary Competition (2025)
49th São Paulo International Film Festival — Mostra Brasil (2025)
20th Fest Aruanda — National Feature Competition (2025)
5th DH Fest — Human Rights Culture Festival (2025)
4th Bonito CineSur — South American Film Festival (2026) National Pre-Release Screening
SEGREDOS DO PUTUMAYO
(Secrets from Putumayo)
Documentary | Brazil | 2020 | 83 min | B&W
Directed by Aurélio Michiles
Produced by 24 VPS Filmes
Co-produced by Imagem Céuvagem
Cinematography by André Lorenz Michiles
Narrated by Stephen Rea
Awards:
Best Film — APCA Awards (2023)
Best Brazilian Documentary — Critics’ Choice
49th Festival Sesc Melhores Filmes (2023)
Best Documentary Cinematography — ABC Awards (2023)
Best Documentary Feature — Kerry International Film Festival (2023)
Audience Award — Nice International Film Festival (2023)
Audience Favorite Feature — Capital Irish Film Festival (2022)
Best Feature Film — Amazônia FiDoc / Pan-Amazonian Film Festival (2022)
Honorable Mention — It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival (2020)
Selections:
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2021)
Vancouver International Film Festival (2021)
33rd Galway Film Fleadh (2021)
25th Lima Film Festival — Documentary Competition (2021)
Festival do Rio — Première Brasil: O Estado das Coisas (2021)
Foyle Film Festival (2021)
AQUI E AGORA / HERE AND NOW
Short film | 18min | 2019
Haitian boy and brazilian girl, surrounded by hardwares.
CAMINHO ABERTO / OPEN WAY
Film Concept | A feature project selected for development by Ibermedia
Através/ through
Feature Film | 105min | 2015
Watch the movie at: vimeo.com/ondemand/atraves
Like Cuba, Cintia is going through a time of transition. For answers to her future, she travels in search of her origins.
Bahia station
Short Film | 14min. | 2012
A wherry crossing the bay,
an iron horse aiming the country
a bound between two worlds.
A Brazilian-Cuban poetry about our native culture.
osvaldão
Feature Film | Documentary | 80min | 2015
Osvaldão is the narrative of the trajectory of a young boxing champion who becomes one of the commanders of the Araguaia Guerrilla. Criolo lends his voice to Osvaldão and Antônio Pitanga, Leci Brandão and Renegado also participate with their voices during the narratives created from letters and documents found.
far away
Videoart | 2min. | 2013