
Mauro Soares
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).
Acting (16 movies)

Half a Light-Year
2021

The Kegelstatt Trio
2022

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023

Life Lasts Two Days
2022

Greice
2024

Antonio One Two Three
2019

Sol Alegria
2018

The Portuguese Woman
2019

Hello My First Love, Over and Out
2018

Bela Mandil
2019

The Useless
2019

Foreign Desert
2020

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
2020

Um Momento de Clareza em Meio ao Caos das Coisas
2021

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
2025

Fuck the Polis
2025
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain | 2020 | Writer | 
| Half a Light-Year | 2021 | Producer | 
| Life Lasts Two Days | 2022 | Writer |