Daniel Karl

DANIEL KARL

writer · filmmaker · producer

Salvador — New York — Europe

Still from Clara's Hair

“Art is the end and politics is the means.”

— Georg Lukács
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The
Spider

2025 short film
Still from The Spider

A young pharmacy worker, living a double life as a cruiser in a nightclub, grapples with his desires as his two worlds collide — forcing him to confront the painful realities of a fractured existence.

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Desmazelo

2021 short film
Still from Desmazelo

After losing his mother, an idle writer looks for meaning in his estranged religion and a relationship with one of its followers.

Anna’s Last
Session

2024 short film
Still from Anna's Last Session

Anna has to say goodbye to her lifelong therapist before his retirement due to an illness.

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Clara’s Hair

short film
Post Production

New York, Budapest

feature film · drama

A Brazilian filmmaker arrives in Budapest and finds herself entangled in histories she didn’t know she carried. A film about diaspora, desire and the weight of the new world.

In Development

Korbanot

feature film · horror

Gallipoli, 1666. A skeptical scribe is sent by the rabbinical council to debate a self-proclaimed Messiah held in an Ottoman fortress. Over three days of argument, spectacle and quiet revelation, he is tested — and barely escapes alive.

In Development

Amaro

feature film · drama

In a beach house on the Bahian coast, a woman and the new maid find themselves drawn toward each other across every line that divides them. When state violence closes in, one of them disappears.

ANCINE Approved
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Os Quatro Imigrantes — book cover

Os Quatro Imigrantes

The Four Immigrants.

Novel · Auana Editora

Published in Brazil during the pandemic. A novel about migration, belonging and the weight of the new world.

Available on Amazon Brazil →
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Daniel Karl

Born in Salvador, Bahia.

Work moves between cinema, fiction and essays — returning to questions of memory, desire, history and political life.

Studied filmmaking in New York. Continues to work between Brazil, the United States and Europe.

Holds Brazilian and Swedish citizenship, removing institutional and financial barriers across EU, Nordic and Latin American cultural frameworks.

Memory Desire History Politics Cinema
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