Lillah Halla

Lillah Halla is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. She studied Directing and Scriptwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de Cuba (2010- 2014), followed by a research program in experimental cinema, at the Dpt. of Fine Arts of the Concordia University, in Montreal (2014). Lillah was an Academy Filmmaker in Locarno in 2014, a TIFF Lab Fellow/ Share her Journey Fellow in Toronto since 2020 and a Berlinale Talent in 2021. Lillah is currently resident at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin and a Talent Paradiso, Brazil. MENARCA (Brazil 2020) is one of the 10 selected short films at Semaine de La Critique Cannes 2020, awarded in Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2020 (Promotional Award), Recontres de Toulouse 2020 (audience award), Curta Cinema 2020 (Best Director), Tirana International Film Festival 2021 (Best Short- Golden Owl), and is licensed to CanalPlus and MUBI.

LEVANTE (Brazil, 2023), her debut feature as a director, premiered at Semaine de la Critique Cannes and was awarded BEST FILM AWARD by FIPRESCI in the same festival. The project was part of the Next Step 2020 from Semaine de la Critique and is now in post production in France. The film is a co-production between Brazil, France and Uruguay.

FLEHMEN (Germany), her second feature, is part of Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Film Lab (JSFL) development program.

She has collaborated as script consultant and line producer in Island of the Hungry Ghosts (Best Documentary Tribeca 2019, Nominated for the Spirits Award 2020), as co-writer in Ensaio (Forum Berlinale 2019, commissioned by the São Paulo Biennial 2018), and as a co-dramaturg in the theater play Stabat Mater (Best National Dramaturgy Award - Shell Brazil 2020), .

Lillah is also the co-founder of the São Paulo-based film collective Vermelha, a political project for women / queer filmmakers in Brazil.