Nara Normande

Director

06/06/2024

06/06/2024

Audiovisual

Writers Room

Nara Normande (1986) is from Alagoas, a state in the northeast of Brazil. She has lived in the city of Recife for 20 years where she made her first films. In 2011, she directed the animated short Dia Estrelado (Habana Film Festival) and in 2014 she directed with Tião the short film Sem Coração that won the Illy prize at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. In 2018, the mixed media animated documentary Guaxuma, a co-production with France, won more than 70 awards at prestigious festivals such as SXSW, Guadalajara, Ottawa AIFF. Sem Coração, the homonymous feature film based on the short, also co-directed by Tião, premiered in 2023 at Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti competition.