Hélio Melo

Helio Melo


2025 Festival Curta Cinema
2024 Olhar do Norte

Through an unprecedented juxtaposition of the visual and literary works of Hélio Melo with current portraits of Acre, we embark on the artist’s struggle to tell the story of rubber tappers and indigenous peoples of the Amazon who defend the forest against threats of erasure…

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Ggesek(Matchstick)

2025 RAI FF

What can we learn from spaces of futures past? Derived from the Kelate word “Ggésék” for matchstick, this film is a portrait of human-machine relationships in the twilight of Malaysia’s last match factory. A space that was once bustling with over 1000 workers, is now manned by 26 with a single match dipping machine;…

Abaznoda (Basket)

Abaznoda (Basket)

2023 FNC
2024 Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Charlotte is a young Abenaki artist who makes black ash baskets. She carries on her shoulders the legacy of all the generations that came before, which pushes her to learn as much as possible about her passion: basketry.…