Date of birth: 1969-06-30
Place of birth: Abaetetuba, Pará, Brazil
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes

Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes (Abaetetuba, June 30, 1969), better known as Dira Paes, is a Brazilian actress and presenter. Known for her versatility, she has won several awards, including a notable twelve Grande Otelo nominations, winning as best actress in 2013, three Guarani Awards, two APCA Awards, two Brazil Quality Awards, an Extra Award, as well as three Kikitos from the Gramado and five Candangos from the Brasília Festival.

2009-06-12
The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote river

2007-03-30
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of

2006-12-12
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes take

2023-11-23
Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, g

2002-08-14
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersec

2011-06-03
A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men

2007-01-26
Public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate the 40th anniversary of

2004-12-12
Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle conf

2012-06-22
Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; ano

2011-01-09
Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island,

2013-08-21
A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journe

2012-05-01
Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyr

2012-08-10
To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross th

2012-06-22
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state

2001-06-08
Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and findi

1996-09-02
Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid

1987-07-22
The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The
1999-01-01

2016-05-12
A corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil

2006-03-10

2011-10-13
In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a singl

2000-08-10
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people

2005-08-19
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become countr

2014-12-18
Ângelo arrives at his grandmother's house in Minas Gerais. There, a small chest full of coins and an

2024-03-08

1990-02-06
During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of t

2005-02-17
While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great

2024-09-26
Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses

1987-06-19
According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village rec

2017-02-09
Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Min

1997-11-25
Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wand

1985-06-22
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from

2017-09-07
Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, m

2010-12-07
A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill.

2017-10-17

2017-12-07
The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having

2002-11-20

2021-06-17
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the i

2003-06-10
An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss.

2015-10-11
A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...

2007-11-09
Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poet

2005-07-14

2008-08-30

2009-12-29
2000-01-01
A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in

2018-07-19
The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest,
2020-09-04

2022-05-19
"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after l

2015-05-12
The 20 episode miniseries edited into a 141 minute TV film. The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho and s

2020-10-22
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit

2019-06-27
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evan

2025-03-26
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a

2024-04-15

2026-01-08
Two friends determined to become respected police officers face prejudice and ridicule for being ope

2025-04-21
A special event to celebrate Brazil's indigenous peoples and debate issues that directly affect the

2024-10-05
A woman and a man live their life together in a vague manner, absent and mechanical in the cloud tha

2025-04-28

2025-10-02
A teacher, activist, and guardian of Amazonian knowledge, Dona Onete became a music star at 72, but


2025-10-19