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Producer and Director.
He started his studies in Management at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
With a degree in Sound and Image by the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, he also has a specialization course in Film Direction from the Tisch School of Arts at the University of New York and the Eurodoc production program.
He worked as a trainer in the workshops promoted by the association Filhos de Lumière.
Throughout his career, he has developed creative works in the field of cinema, authoring fiction and documentary, alternating with other works in the fields of video art and video clips for some of the best names in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Mão Morta, Sean Riley, D3o, etc.) and several other projects. As a producer he started his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced more than 70 shorts, features, videos and documentaries. He produced renowned authors such as Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and F. J. Ossang, as well as young filmmakers such as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He has co-produced with Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, Tebas (long metregem) and Corrente (short film) stands out with whom he was represented in more than fifty international festivals and was awarded with a dozen prizes. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Festival and was awarded a Special Mention. He was responsible for the cinema production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, including films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice
Most Popular Rodrigo Areias Trailers
Total trailers found: 96
01 January 2015
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
28 January 2019
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet.
03 August 2022
The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a revisitation of geographical places and memories.
01 January 2015
Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a woman.
19 October 2011
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink.
25 January 2012
Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands? The film not only traces the various stages of the production process, but gives a voice to the people who work as part of it.
16 May 2023
Maria spends her days working in her family’s noisy metal factory. While being oppressed by male violence, she is also responsible for caring for her sister-in-law and niece, both existentially depleted.
12 July 2013
A survivor travels in search of the last bastion of civilization. Battling to survive, but never losing hope that something nostalgic from the past, which lives on in his memory, might still exist.
14 August 2014
A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city.
01 September 2012
A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet.
03 September 2013
In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles.
30 October 2015
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition.
09 July 2020
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town.
03 July 2021
In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.
21 April 2023
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies.
30 April 2017
Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage.
29 January 2016
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre?
22 October 2020
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet.
01 January 2007
A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of music videos, concerts, band rehearsals and the last concert presented at the Rock Rendez Vous.
20 March 2019
Nora comes out of prison. She only has one thing in mind: finding a youg neo-punk artist she admires, Léa.
01 January 2015
Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.
08 December 2012
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare.
26 October 2021
The art of memory is a classic technique that associates images with places through a process of remembrance and meaning.
25 December 2025
An actress goes to Azores to take part in the theatrical tour of The Tempest and on her arrival she finds no one from the company, there is not even a theatre.
13 November 2006
A family man becomes obsessed with his front door neighbor. Slowly he gives up work and forgets about anything asides his obsession.
05 October 2020
Over the dark and barren landscapes of a city somewhere in the Arctic Circle, we hear the story of a man who dreamed he was a woman, an oneiric reverie that allows him to be in two opposite places at the same time.
02 January 2025
The short documentary explores the transformation over the decades of the Stop Shopping Center in Bonfim, Porto, framing its history within the materialist critique proposed by Walter Benjamin in his Book of Passages.
17 July 2016
Penumbria was founded two hundred years ago, in a distant istmus - a place of arid soils, angry seas and violent weather.
14 June 2023
Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique.
12 June 2026
Spain, the 1970s. Although Francoist ideology remains deeply entrenched in society, a group of young trailblazers and an ambitious promoter are about to change the history of women’s football.
19 October 2017
A false diary on a man's journey that, more than just disappear, he aims to be nothing, to become nothing.
27 February 2020
After the crisis came tourism and Lisbon's transformation. Alis Ubbo (Phoenician for safe port) follows the change in the urban landscape of the city in the last 2 years.
20 July 2018
They manage a cultural venue. He believes in technological evolution. She believes that love is static.
10 July 2013
Two brothers, who haven't spoken in years, meet at their mother's funeral where they must deal with their mourning family, their obligations as sons and their own feelings of loss.
23 April 2024
A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams.
23 April 2013
Two childhood friends grew up and face strange feelings now. One of them tries to explore that feelings by words and their relationship becomes uncomfortable.
27 July 2017
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection.
05 May 2018
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
18 June 2014
Carrotrope is a new optical toy. It represents the cyclic movements of life. Meanwhile, a man drinks and the time passes at 24 frames per second.
01 July 2013
A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza.
06 October 2020
She has a large head and a small body. Her clothes are fitted to the size of her head. He has a small head and a large body.
23 October 2000
On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city.
21 July 2018
And then, a house will appear to be waiting you: as in a slope, this is a leaning story on the memory of places and things, on returns and new beginnings.
07 June 2017
A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his sexuality.
01 January 2011
It is not the landscape that changes. Every service station is a service station. What changes is being in movement.
01 January 2009
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
02 January 2012
An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de Carvalho, otherwise known as The Wolf of Madragoa.
10 February 2011
Based on the installation Santa Paz Domestica, Domesticada by Ana Vieira (1977) and excerpts from the September 22nd, 1956 issue of the magazine O Cruzeiro.
25 October 2018
Four distinct individuals — a filmmaker charting an autumnal trail of leaves, a mysterious girl wandering through the labyrinths of creation, a woman immersed in poignant reminiscences of autumns past, and a man devoted to nurturing the void left by a departed tree — converge in the multifaceted, polymorphic realm of Jorge Listopad (1921-2017), poet, essayist, teacher, mentor, theatre and television director, husband and father.
01 January 2007
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
08 December 2011
Caught in time, a trio of prehistoric characters lives around a dolmen. One of them, who is hyperactive, tries to stir his mates emotions with inventions and works of art.
18 May 2017
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.
04 February 2024
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under the sun's blazing heat. The young boy, Joel, discovers a man who is about to set the forest on fire.
01 July 2008
He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she’s trapped.
14 May 2019
Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.
03 July 2010
A jester must entertain. But he doesn't always want to.
16 July 2021
There is a village in the mountain and a house in the village, where Ema repeats gestures and tasks: she takes care of her grandmother, walks, reads, waits.
