Eryk Rocha
Eryk Rocha is a filmmaker born in Brazil, in 1978. In 2002, he graduated from the film school of Los Baños, Cuba, where he directed his first feature Stones in the Sky (Rocha Que Voa), which was selected in Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, and other festivals, winning Best Film in Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. Since then, he has garnered a prestigious presence at international festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, New York, Montevideo, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Marseille, and Amsterdam. Cinema Novo (2016), his seventh feature, won the L’Oeil d’Or for Best Documentary at the Cannes IFF.
In 2019, Eryk launched his feature drama, Burning Night, supported by CNC with Aide Aux Cinema du Monde award for post-production. Other highlights from his extensive filmography include The Falling Sky (A Queda do Céu), the immersive and lyrical Brazilian documentary Eryk co-directed with first-time director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, which was a standout at major international festivals—including Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, DOC NYC, and Doclisboa. Other critically acclaimed films include the NY Times Critic’s Pick Sunday Ball and Edna, which each received awards and presence at renowned festivals. Several of his works are held in MoMA’s permanent collection.
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Burning Night
Directed by Eryk Rocha • Drama • With Fabricio Boliveira, Bárbara Colen, Cadu N. Jay • 2019 • 98 minutes
Paulo starts driving a cab to pay for his bills and for his son’s child support. Passenger’s stories intertwine with his own while he drives at night through Rio de Janeiro - a chaotic city ...
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Cinema Novo
Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2016 • 90 minutes
CINEMA NOVO is a film essay that poetically investigates the eponimous Brazilian film movement, the most prominent in Latin America in the past century, through the analysis of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira do Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leo...
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Edna
Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2021 • 70 minutes
Living on the edge of Transbrasiliana highway in the Brazilian Amazon, Edna is a witness of a land in ruins built upon massacres. Raised only by her mother, she experiences in her body and of her descendants, the marks of a "war that never...
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The Falling Sky
Directed by Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha • Documentary • 2024 • 108 minutes
In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, THE FALLING SKY follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trench...
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Sunday Ball
Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2014 • 64 minutes
In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracanã stadium, stage of the 2014 World Cup grand final, we find the popular field in the Sampaio neighborhood. Football happens there as a genuine expression of Brazilian culture. Played on Sunda...
