Larissa Figueiredo is a filmmaker, writer and educator from Brasília, Brazil. Her work unfolds in the hybrid space where fiction and non-fiction meet, exploring shared invention between subjects and territories. In her process, she investigates the boundaries between cinema and literature, and the micropolitics of affects and events that emerge from encounters.

Her films have been shown at festivals such as Rotterdam, Locarno, FIDMarseille, Tiradentes, the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival. Her main works include The Bull (2015), a hybrid feature awarded the Visions Sud Est Prize; The King (2014), made with the 9th Rucker Vieira Screenplay Competition prize; Saudade (2019), an episode of the series O Som e o Tempo for Canal Brasil; and Mulheres de Encantaria (2023), a series for CinebrasilTV. As a producer, she worked on Street Under (2019), by Tomás Osten, which premiered at Locarno, and Valley of Souls (2018), by Nicolás Rincón Gille, winner of the Étoile d'Or at the Marrakech International Film Festival. She also works as an editor, on auteur short films and on series for Amazon Prime, Disney/Star+, HBO and Canal Curta!.

She is the founder of Cazumbá Filmes, where she develops auteur and educational projects. She has taught at schools and universities in Brazil and abroad, including EICTV (Cuba), CalArts (USA) and DocNomads (Portugal), and was coordinator at the International Film Academy in São Paulo. She took part in the project Inventar com a Diferença (2013), a partnership of the Brazilian Secretariat for Human Rights and Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Her education took shape between literature and cinema, across four countries. She began Literature at the University of Brasília (UnB) and went on to Université Lumière Lyon 2, in France, where she completed the Licence 3 and M1 in Film and Audiovisual Studies. She studied Visual Arts / Cinema of the Real at HEAD – Geneva, where she had classes with Miguel Gomes, Albert Serra and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, with an exchange in Directing at Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires. Back in Brazil, this path was recognized by Unicamp as a Bachelor’s degree in Literary Studies. She also took the Writers’ Preparation Course (CLIPE) at Casa das Rosas, in São Paulo. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and Locarno Academy, was an artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany) from 2022 to 2023, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Lisbon, where her research investigates cinema as a territorial practice at the intersection of everyday life and agroecology.

Photo: Otavio Almeida