Diego Müller | Director

Feature Films:
1. Orgulho e Tradição - Os Festejos Farroupilhas de Porto Alegre 2009 (2009) (DOC);
2. Bandoneando - A busca pelos Bandoneonistas negros da Campanha Gaúcha (2022) (DOC);
3. Infinimundo (2024) (FIC).
Short Films:
1. Cortejo Negro (2008) (FIC);
2. A Invasão do Alegrete (2009) (FIC);
3. O Boneco de Neve (2013) (FIC);
4. Em Pedaços (2014) (FIC);
5. Maria (2020) (FIC);
6. Argeu (2021) (DOC);
7. Cinderela do Bom Fim (2022) (FIC);
8. Em nome do pai (2022) (FIC);
9. Correnteza (2024) (DOCUDRAMA);
10. A Tempestade (2025) (FICÇÃO).

Director’s Statement:
I have always been drawn to intimate stories set in small spaces, yet capable of containing entire worlds. The Tempest was born from this impulse: to portray the unlikely encounter between two displaced figures — an aging farmer trapped in the weight of his past and a trans woman suddenly cast into the solitude of the countryside.
Their meeting disrupts a fragile balance and opens the possibility of transformation. In some ways, the film echoes the dramatic structure of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, in which the arrival of a stranger unsettles an isolated world and creates the conditions for reconciliation.
At the same time, the film resonates with the tragic sensibility of Macbeth, particularly in its perception of time as something that drags forward and in the awareness of a man marked by the weight of his past. José, like Shakespeare’s character, seems to move through repeating days haunted by memory and guilt — though unlike Macbeth, his final gesture is one of renunciation and care.
Set in a rural Brazil marked by silence, faith, and unspoken wounds, the film explores the tension between past and future, guilt and redemption. The landscape mirrors the inner lives of the characters, while time unfolds slowly, almost like a ritual.
Ultimately, The Tempest is less about the events that occur than about what happens within a person when the presence of another forces their world to change.

Diego Müller
Director and Screenwriter