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Saguenail - Serge Abramovici (born May 7, 1955) After graduated with a degree in Modern Languages and Literature, he came to Portugal in 1975 to see the Revolution from the inside. Here he met Regina Guimarães, who would become his companion and accomplice, both in art and in life. He returned to Paris where he worked as a primary school teacher until he settled in Porto for good in 1980. With Regina Guimarães, he founded the production company Hélastre (which, however, would only come into legal existence in 1996). Here he began his cinematographic work in 1980. In 1984, he was part of the team that launched the film magazine 'A Grande Ilusão' (published by the Cineclube do Norte), where he developed a critical activity.
Most Popular Saguenail Trailers
Total trailers found: 32
11 April 1995
To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost.
09 September 1980
A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.
13 July 2025
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World.
01 January 1969
AUTREFOIS illustrates, disillustrates and counter-illustrates a monologue by Charles Crosby - narrated by Gilles Mayoux with a jazz background of Bertrand Bishop and Claude Santelli - in which all modes of existence are identified with the harms of progress.
21 June 1996
In an empty theatre, a woman is watching an American film - "Ma's Sin" - which tells the weird revenge story of a middle-aged wife, driven mad by jealousy and a deep feer of dying.
01 January 2011
Ateliers Ângelo films the artist's Ângelo de Sousa workspaces shortly after his death. Its absence is now an immense presence and impossible to represent.
20 February 1989
In an enclosed space of a café for an entire night, a set of characters try to verbalize their thirst for love and their fear that love will overwhelm them.
01 January 2005
An altarpiece and a portrait, whose composition obeys the digressions and ramblings of a handful of people, around their intimate relationship with God.
01 January 2001
Porto 2001 project, made in the prison of Paços de Ferreira. Nuno Cardoso, the play director, develops this work with the prisoners during the time period of one year.
01 January 2006
On leaving university, what do students do with their acquired baggage? Is it for them to find a job that meets their expectations?
01 January 2016
We're at war. Every day, bombs explode. Everywhere. The terrorist attack is unstoppable. The enemy is invisible.
01 January 2012
A documentary view of the practices of popular culture in the most jubilant of the local pagan festivities.
01 January 2007
Antónia didn't play with dolls, nor did she learn to read and write at the age when children go to school and don't usually sell their labor power.
01 January 1985
America is a legend, an idea. To rediscover the traces of such an idea within the reality of a city requires a transformation of this very city into ideas and legends, to the point that life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, that which can be communicated, and that which cannot,high and low are open to a contradictory understanding.
01 January 2005
What characterizes the spaces, differentiating the fields of the cities, the suburbs of the centers is, in large part, the speed of their modification.
01 January 1973
A film by Saguenail
19 February 1999
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat operator Antonio.
01 January 2006
From Jacques Prévert's poem “Petit déjeuner du matin”, Mau Dia experiences a dilation of the time in which the banality hides the lived drama.
01 January 2003
An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
01 January 2018
Based on biographical data that refer to, and transform, the experiences, aspirations, memories, etc.
01 January 2001
A film motivated by anger at the frivolity with which sex is treated in cinema. On the aquarium screen, an attempt is made to materialize thought.
01 January 2013
The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently.
14 January 2021
Discussing cinema during a pandemic – a revisit to an online film club, after thirty post-viewing discussion sessions that took place during the first lockdown.
13 February 2026
From Manet's painting – Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe – two women and two men slip from the timelessness of the museum into our present day.
20 October 2019
Portrait of a time and a country through the plotless story of an unassuming couple, questioning sees
01 January 2014
Shot in Martinique, with the evocation of several texts, namely by Aimé Césaire.
07 June 2025
A man looks at himself in the mirror and does not recognise himself. That man is me. An old, tired, wounded man.
01 January 2022
It introduces a women's singing group from Alentejo, their testimonies about the periods of the dictatorship and the April revolution, and their experiences working in the fields before and during the agrarian reform.
