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“Camila Kater’s debut short is a fresh, unprejudiced reflection on femininity through successive stages of life. A resourceful documentary, “Carne” mixes diverse techniques such as paint, watercolor, stop motion, 35mm film and virtual imagery decomposition to obtain a harmonious, vindicating ensemble narrated by five women from childhood to old age”
VARIETY
“Debut films this polished and ambitious are rare. Well done.”
Cartoon Brew
CARNE (Flesh) is Brazilian Spanish animated documentary directed by Camila Kater, produced by Lívia Perez (Doctela) & Chelo Loureiro (Abano Producións) and distributed by Freak Agency.
Synopsis Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
CARNE premiered at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival and was an official selection at over 250 festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), DOK Leipzig, American Film Institute Festival (AFI), Palm Springs Short Festival and Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
CARNE qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards in the documentary short film category, was shortlisted for the Goya Awards (Spain), was a candidate for the European Short Film Award (EFA), and received over 95 national and international awards, including a special mention from the Youth Jury at Locarno and the Locarno Shorts Weeks Award.
Other Awards:
Best Screenplay, Best Short Film by Audience Award, and Best Short Film by Critics (ABRACCINE) at the 52nd Brasília Film Festival; Best European Short Film at the 64th Seminci (Spain); Coral Animation Award at the Havana International Film Festival (Cuba); Best Documentary at the 61st ZINEBI (Spain, Oscar qualifier); Best Short Film by Audience Award at the Rio Film Festival; Best Ibero-American Documentary at the 48th Huesca International Film Festival (Spain). In early 2021, CARNE was acquired by The New York Times Op-Docs.
CARNE was chosen as the second best Brazilian short film of 2019 by ABRACCINE (Brazilian Association of Film Critics) and was featured at Annecy 2020 by Variety, AWN (Animation World Network), and Animation Magazine as one of the best short films of Annecy in 2020.
In 2021, CARNE was scheduled to be part of the “Animating Realities: Social Impact Shorts” exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the largest museum in the United States dedicated to the arts, sciences, and artists of cinema.
After 6 years in production, the short film has become a reference in animation and documentary cinema and continues its trajectory of screenings in Brazil and around the world.
In 2025, CARNE and Camila Kater featured in the Bloomsbury publication “Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century”, edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren, in a chapter called “Feminist Animated Documentary, Ways of Contronting Violence Against Women” written by Shilyh Warren and Christine Veras.
In 2023, CARNE was featured among the international animated shorts in the Google Arts and Culture online exhibition “Making Moving Images – Animation as a Medium for Telling Personal Stories”, with accounts from director Camila Kater about the creative process, behind-the-scenes photos, and references. The exhibition was curated by Graphy Animation in conjunction with the Thailand Creative & Design Center.
In June 2024, CineOP (Ouro Preto Film Festival) highlighted CARNE in the exhibition “Animation Cinema in Brazil: A Historical Perspective,” an exhibition dedicated to the historical and contemporary perspective of Brazilian animation, highlighting short and feature-length productions made for the cinema screen. Camila Kater was among the directors honored in the exhibition, with panels of her short film CARNE, behind-the-scenes footage, and a personal statement.
In 2025, CARNE was part of the permanent exhibition “Mercosur: Human Rights” at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (formerly ESMA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a collaboration between the Instituto Multimedia de Derechos Humanos (IMD) and the Instituto de Políticas Públicas en Derechos Humanos del MERCOSUR (IPPDH).
Starting in 2025, CARNE will be part of the School Health Program (PSE), an initiative of the Ministries of Health and Education of the Brazilian Federal Government, becoming part of the educational resources of public schools throughout the country.
Festivals and Awards
Credits
Direction | Camila Kater
Production | Lívia Perez (Doctela) & Chelo Loureiro (Abano Producións)
Protagonists | Rachel Patrício, Larissa Rahal, Raquel Virgínia, Valquiria Rosa, Helena Ignez
Storyline | Camila Kater & Bruna Kater
Script | Camila Kater & Ana Julia Carvalheiro
Animation | Camila Kater, Giovana Affonso, Flávia Godoy, Cassandra Reis and Leila Monsegur
Edition / Photography | Samuel Mariani
Original Soundtrack | Sofía Oriana Infante
Sound Design | Julia Teles
Distribution | Freak Agency
Technical information:
Duration | 12 min
Language | Portuguese
Techniques | oil painting on plate, stop-motion, watercolor animacion, 2D digital, claymation & direct animation on 35mm film
Camila Kater 
Hi! Does anyone know where I can watch the full short?
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Hi Sofia
Thank you for the interest in CARNE. Watch the full film (11min) at The New York Times Op-Docs: https://nyti.ms/3bEPk6B
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