Rafaela Camelo

Rafaela Camelo has directed films since 2011, when the short The Art of Walking Through the Streets of Brasília screened at festivals including Havana and Frameline. In 2019 she directed Desires of the Flesh, selected for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded Best Film at Biarritz Amérique Latine and at Portugal's New Directors, New Films. In 2023 she codirected, with Emanuel Lavor, the short The Beads, selected for the Berlinale and awarded at Filmfest Dresden. In 2025 she made her feature directing debut with The Nature of Invisible Things, a Brazil Chile coproduction that opened the Berlinale's Generation showcase, about a girl who follows her nurse mother through hospital shifts and comes into direct contact with death. The film received over 20 awards, including the Critics' Prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival, three Kikitos at the Gramado Film Festival and the APCA Award for Best Feature Screenplay. She is currently preparing the feature A Filha Favorita, set to begin filming in 2026, and developing Irmã Mais Velha, a project backed by the Hubert Bals Fund.