Marília Rocha

Biography

Marília Rocha is a filmmaker based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She made the films Aboio [Cattle Callers] (2005), Acacio (2008), and A falta que me faz [Like Water through Stone] (2010). Her works have been selected and awarded in countless Brazilian and International Film Festivals, having also been screened in museums such as MoMA (USA), New Museum (USA) and Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel (Switzerland). In 2011, the Dockanema festival (Mozambique) held a retrospective of her work and she was honored at Visions du Réel (Switzerland), which dedicated a special show to her films.