As miçangas
The Beads | Perlen

Pâmela Germano, Tícia Ferraz
As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen by Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor
BRA 2023, Berlinale Shorts
© Joanna Ramos

As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen by Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor
BRA 2023, Berlinale Shorts
With
- Pâmela Germano (Pâmela)
- Tícia Ferraz (Letícia)
- Karine Teles (Mãe)
Crew
Directors | Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor |
Screenplay | Emanuel Lavor |
Cinematography | Joanna Ramos |
Editing | Henrique Laterza |
Music | Letícia Fialho |
Sound Design | Evelyn Santos, Alexandre Martins |
Sound | Leonardo Kraus |
Production Design | Sarah Noda |
Costumes | Juliana Ramos |
Make-Up | Alexandra Vinagre |
Assistant Director | Júlia Rios |
Production Manager | Rafa Reche |
Producer | Daniela Marinho Martins |
Executive Producer | Heloísa Schons |
Co-Producers | Daniel Jaber, Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor, Catarina Acciolly, Letícia Ferreira da Fonseca |
Co-Production |
Cardume Curtas Belo Horizonte Apoteótica Cinematográfica Brasília Stelios Produções Brasília Relatar-se Brasília Terra Cultural Brasília |
World Sales
Agencia Freak
Produced by
Moveo Filmes

Film Team
At the premiere at the Cubix.
As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 21, 2023

The 2023 Berlinale Shorts directors
8 · Back · Les chenilles · Eeva · From Fish to Moon · Happy Doom · La herida luminosa | Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays · It’s a Date · Jill, Uncredited · A Kind of Testament · Marungka tjalatjunu | Dipped in Black · As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen · Mwanamke Makueni | A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni · Nuits blanches | Sleepless Nights | Schlaflose Nächte · Ours | Bear | Bär · Qin mi | Daughter and Son · Terra Mater – Mother Land · The Veiled City · The Waiting | Das Warten · Wo de peng you | All Tomorrow’s Parties · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2023

Heloísa Schons, Catarina Acciolly, Júlia Rios, Joanna Ramos, Emanuel Lavor, Rafaela Camelo, Daniela Marinho Martins
The film team at the premiere
As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 21, 2023
Rafaela Camelo

The director and screenwriter was born in Brazil in 1985. Her short film Desires of the Flesh premiered at the 2019 Sundance Festival. The Beads, which she co-directed with Emanuel Lavor, screened in the 2023 Berlinale Shorts. A natureza das coisas invisíveis is her debut feature film.
Filmography
2011 A arte de andar pelas ruas de Brasília (The Art of Walking Through the Streets); short film 2019 O mistério da carne (Desires of the Flesh); short film 2023 As miçangas (The Beads); short film, co-director: Emanuel Lavor 2025 A natureza das coisas invisíveis (The Nature of Invisible Things)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025
Emanuel Lavor

Born in Brazil in 1995, the filmmaker, actor and analogue photographer studied screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba. His screenplay for his feature project The Jaguar was selected for the 13th Brasil Cine Mundi international co-production meeting where it won awards including the Official Jury Prize. As miçangas is his second short film.
Filmography
2019 O pequeno chupa-dedo (Little Suck-a-Thumb); short film 2023 As miçangas (The Beads); short film, co-director: Rafaela Camelo
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023