Sidney Santiago

Actor

August 3, 1985 (40 years)

Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil

Biography

Sidney Santiago Kwanza (Guarujá, August 3, 1985) is a Brazilian actor, researcher, activist and theater director. Graduated in acting from the School of Dramatic Art of the University of São Paulo, he is a member and one of the founders of the theater group Os Crespos.

Filmography

7.5

India: A Love Story

Ademir Silva

The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.

8.4

The Slave Mother

Sapião

The story begins in 1789 in Congo, in Africa, where a tribe celebrates the marriage of Luena and Kamau. The natives, trapped and sold as slaves.

6.2

Rensga Hits!

Theo

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8.0

Queridos Amigos

Jurandir

Reserved, intelligent and generous, Leo has achieved professional success and now lives secluded in Serra da Cantareira, alongside young Karina. He discovers that he is ill, and decides to reunite the old friends of the 1970s, with whom he fought the military regime.

3.0

Knitting

Cacau

Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.

N/A

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você: A Série

Renan / Sandra Pink

Sidney Magal and his wife Magali revisit the first encounters that marked the beginning of their romance. Between scenes from fiction and their real-life commentary, they share the exciting journey from when they met at the awards ceremony for the "Most Beautiful Student of Bahia" to the love that overcame all obstacles.

8.0

Dr. Gama

José

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

5.0

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você

Renan / Sandra Pink

In 1979, Brazilian singer Sidney Magal is at the peak of his career. On a TV show, he meets Magali and, enchanted by the young woman, decides to win her over. But, in order to do that, he will have to overcome the resistance of his manager, Jean Pierre, and the distrust of her family, friends and even Magali herself.

6.4

The Sign of the City

Josi

Teca, a late-night radio show host, uses her astrological skills to help listeners who call in for advice. But her own life feels empty and lonely. One day she makes the acquaintance of her handsome new neighbour, Gil, only to find out he is married.

7.8

Reflections of a Blender

Rapaz da Vitamina

After receiving a new blade, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.

3.9

Perfect Endings

Hugo

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

6.4

Stories of Samba

Cícero

At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

6.6

The Twelve Labours

Héracles

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.

4.8

We're Together

Nadinho

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world around her.

5.5

Express Kidnapping

Matheus

Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.

6.2

The Devil Lives Here

Bento

Three teenagers go visit a friend at his old farmhouse for the weekend. What they didn't expect was to be stuck in the middle of a centenary war between good and evil.

5.5

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia

Lima Barreto (jovem)

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black, poor writer living in Brazilian society between monarchy's dying days and early years of republic with its countless social problems, which formed the basis of his many novels.

6.1

A Comédia Divina

Pai Classe Média

The Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century.

4.4

The Tenants

Cleber

Valter's life turns upside-down when a gang of smalltime criminals move in next door. Valter's wife Iara wants something to be done about their new neighbors whos nigthtly activities does not allow them to sleep. Valter just wants to be left alone.

4.8

The Ballerina

Diamante

Diamante is a gay boxer who stands out for his body control and fast leg movements. At night, he performs as a drag queen at a nightclub. His judgmental coach leaves him out of a boxing competition, but Diamante wants to be a champion.