Margarida Gil Trailers
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Born in Covilhã, Portugal in 1950, she studied German philology in Lisbon. As a filmmaker, she can look back on a career spanning over 30 years with films including Relação Fiel e Verdadeira, which screened at Venice, and Rosa Negra, which was presented at Locarno. She was married to the director João César Monteiro and worked closely with him as an actor, screenwriter and assistant director. In 2005, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome International Film Festival.
Most Popular Margarida Gil Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
24 March 1979
The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms.
22 February 2024
The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River.
10 March 1979
In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual connotation of the pomegranate – to tell a tale of love, envy, treason and mistaken/double identities.
25 June 1993
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague.
21 April 2005
In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore.
09 February 2012
A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.
01 January 1998
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote.
16 June 2010
The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory.
01 January 1988
A festive day in the Timorense community stranded in the Jamor Valley. A partisan who came from Timor and his story.
19 May 1978
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
01 January 2017
The plan of issues, since 1962, an alive and continuous legacy of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
01 January 2007
Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes.
01 January 1994
Based on a work by Fernando Pessoa.
22 June 1989
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North.
25 September 2018
Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.
09 June 1975
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
01 January 1972
Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants.
01 January 2002
Não Me Cortes O Cabelo Que Meu Pai Me Penteou is a collage of two traditional tales present in the anthology of Traditional Portuguese Tales organized by Carlos de Oliveira and José Gomes Ferreira; The first with the same name and the second called "A Dona Maria".
