2020Nominee
Best Performance
Foreign Desert
Mauro Soares
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Viseu, Portugal
October 1, 1988
Biography
Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2018Nominee
Best Performance
Sol Alegria
2019Nominee
Best Performance
Antonio One Two Three
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Performance
Bela Mandil
2025Highlight
Best Performance
Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
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Antonio One Two Three
Bela Mandil
Life Lasts Two Days