Kabuki
Screenings:
December 6, 2025 Casa do Comum, Lisbon
February 14-28, 2026 Online Portugal only
Kabuki is a stop motion animation short film that poetically follows the transgender character Kabuki’s search for self-
acceptance and identity. The film is dedicated to the transgender people killed every day and revisits this ancestral form of theatre from Japan to give full significance to the object of the mask.
Director, screenwriter and producer of the short film “Sangro”, winner of the “Silver Hugo awards for Best Animated Film” at the 2019 Chicago Festival, “Best Brazilian Short Film” and “Best Documentary” at Anima Mundi 2019, selected by “Annecy International Animation Festival”. Scriptwriter for the reality show “Drag Race Brazil” on Paramount+ and WOW. Producer and screenwriter of the short film “Guida”, by Rosana Urbes, winner of the Jean-Luc Xiberras prize at the “Annecy International Animation Festival 2015”. Director of the stop motion short film "Kabuki", a Brazil/France co-production in partnership with Wag Films, Amopix and the France 3 channel.