Eliane Caffé (born 1961) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Born in São Paulo, Caffé got a Psychology degree from the

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in 1985 and a master's degree from

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in 1992. Caffé directed some short films in the beginning of her career. Her first feature film, ''Kenoma'', from 1997, was exhibited at the 55th Venice Film Festival, and won the Soleil d'or in the 20th

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, among other awards. Her second feature was ''

Narradores de Javé ''Narradores de Javé'' (''The Storytellers'') is a 2003 Brazilian film by Eliane Caffé. Plot A small and poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a planned dam, and believe that the only way to prevent this is to prove ...

'', from 2003 . In 2016, she released '' Era o Hotel Cambridge'', a docufiction about a

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hotel in downtown

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Filmography

* 1987 - ''O nariz'' (short film) * 1990 - ''Arabesco'' (short film) * 1995 - ''Caligrama'' (short film) * 1998 - ''Kenoma'' (Feature film) * 2003 - ''Narradores de Javé'' (Feature film) * 2008 - ''O Mago dos Viadutos'' (short film) * 2009 - ''O Sol do Meio Dia'' (Feature film) * 2009 - ''O Louco dos Viadutos'' (miniseries for

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) * 2011 - ''Céu Sem Eternidade'' (Feature film) * 2016 - '' Era O Hotel Cambridge'' (Feature film) * 2020 - ''Para Onde Voam as Feiticeiras'' (documentary film)

References

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