Lillah Halla is a Brazilian director and screenwriter.

Her debut feature film, “Levante” (Power Alley - BR | FR | UY 2023), premiered at Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2023, where it won the prestigious FIPRESCI Award for Best Film. The film has garnered over 25 international awards and is distributed in more than 15 territories worldwide. Prior to this, Halla’s short film, “Menarca” (Menarche - BR | 2020), also premiered at Semaine de La Critique Cannes and was featured as Mubi’s Film of the Day in 2021. “Menarca” was widely recognized, receiving awards globally and being licensed to Canal+. Currently, Halla is developing her second feature, “Golden Balls.”

Lillah graduated in Directing and Scriptwriting from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de Cuba (EICTV) from 2010 to 2014, followed by a research program in experimental cinema at Concordia University’s Department of Fine Arts in Montreal in 2014. Halla was an Academy Filmmaker in Locarno (2014), a TIFF Lab Fellow (2020), a Berlinale Talent (2021), and an artist resident at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2022).

From 2004 to 2019, Halla collaborated on various theater productions, working with renowned artists such as Christoph Schlingensief, Frank Castorf, José Celso Martinez Correa, Stefan Kaegi, and Janaína Leite. Her contributions to theater include co-dramaturgy for the play “Stabat Mater,” which won the Best National Dramaturgy Award - Shell Brazil in 2020.