Marco Dutra
Origin: Brazil
Marco Dutra (b. 1980, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, and composer known for blending genre cinema with social realism and psychological depth. A graduate of the University of São Paulo, he gained early attention with award-winning shorts before co-directing Hard Labor (2011), a subtle horror allegory on class anxiety. International recognition followed with Good Manners (2017), a genre-defying fable combining melodrama and werewolf mythology, which premiered at Locarno. His later work, including All the Dead Ones (2020, Berlinale), explores Brazil’s colonial legacy and racial tensions. Dutra’s cinema fuses gothic atmosphere, political subtext, and emotional intensity.
Complete filmography
- 2024Bury Your Dead (Entierre a sus muertos)
- 2020All the Dead Ones (Todos os Mortos)
- 2017Good Manners
- 2016The Silence of the Sky (Era el cielo)