Márcio-André de Sousa Haz is a Spanish-Brazilian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist based between Barcelona and Budapest. His work bridges poetic language and visual grammar, moving between experimental and narrative forms, often addressing themes of memory, violence, displacement, and identity.

With an academic background in literature and philosophy, he transitioned into cinema through directing and screenwriting workshops with names such as Roman Coppola, Asghar Farhadi, and Peter Greenaway. He further advanced his training at the New York Film Academy and the Sundance Institute.

He has participated in development labs at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and was awarded the top prize at FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival’s Pitching Forum.

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His short film Cozy for Two at Kuleshov St. won the Best Director award at the Málaga Film Festival (Medina Media 4K Award), while The First Time I Saw Francis Taylor He Was in Slow Motion received twelve international awards.

 

As a writer, his essays and poems have appeared in international magazines, translated into over twenty languages. His book Apocryphal Poems of Paul Valéry was nominated for the Jabuti and Oceanos literary prizes, and his essay Poetics of Houses received a grant from Brazil’s National Library Foundation.

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His literary and performative work has been the subject of university courses in the US, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as a Ph.D. thesis at UNB, theater productions, and exhibitions. His pursuit of art’s essential boundaries culminated in a seminal performance in Chernobyl, where he read poetry for six hours in the Zone of Exclusion, becoming the world’s first “radioactive poet.”

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His debut feature, Above Budapest, is scheduled for release in 2026.