He was born in Portugal in 1974. He studied Film at the Higher Education School of Theatre and Cinema and, in 1988, he was one of the founders of the production company O Som e a Fúria. His short films Corpo e meio, A serpente, Arquivo, Mercúrio and Voodoo, as well as his only feature film, A zona, were screened at the focus on his work held by Bafici ’11.
Total trailers found: 103
26 November 2012
A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.
23 March 2005
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate.
14 July 2021
'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain unknown', says the temporary Chambermaid in a large seaside hotel, which, unable to communicate, lives through a rigid methodology of analysis of the exterior and a ritualised quotidian.
01 January 2008
A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film).
30 April 2008
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
11 March 2010
Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s daughter.
06 July 2022
One day, an old water pipe caused a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic mushrooms of the order Polypo- rales would grow.
09 July 2017
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him.
20 July 2018
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory.
16 October 2011
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
01 July 2012
According to the perpetual lunar calendar: 'When sparks catch a pot of water, it signifies wind. When the hills echo loudly and the sea generates great noise, it signifies tempestuous winds and storms at sea.
10 February 2017
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off.
17 October 2013
Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again.
13 March 2006
After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors.
04 July 1997
The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests.
01 January 2000
Three people in a car, who will stay there the longest, wins the car.
07 July 2007
It’s all natural phenomena. There’s no doubt about that. The tide turns in cycles. Water rots wood.
09 February 2017
The panoramic shots are breathtaking: a majestic mountain landscape in winter, flat-roofed tin shacks cowering next to one other, women perched on steep slopes using primitive tools to break through pieces of rock.
20 October 2022
Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes.
17 October 2013
A ten year-old boy faces up to the struggles of life in a summer camp. It’s not easy to be ignored by the girl of his heart or seeing his dormitory vandalised by adolescent thugs.
08 July 2006
An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi.
05 April 2012
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
02 July 2021
A young female poet and journalist decides to look for her childhood love, a perpetual student who gets mixed up with oppressive gambling debts.
01 April 2009
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten.
31 March 2016
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara.
24 May 2024
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.
29 September 2013
A story about survival, belief in the physical memory of things, as if still-life was always part of the scientific possibility or of the nightmare of extinction.
14 July 2021
Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
28 August 2019
When a terminally ill French actress decides to spend her last vacation with her large family in Sintra, her relatives grapple with their own insecurities.
11 October 2018
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
19 January 2004
A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses.
07 July 2019
Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Maureen Fazendeiro’s film is a mysterious, multi-textured portrait of eclipse spectators in Portugal.
16 November 2023
"As I watched you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind like summer clouds across the sky.
14 July 2022
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness.
29 January 2026
In a distant past, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, itinerant artists, make their living hopping from town to town.
08 September 2023
Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast.
27 November 2025
A journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal and a portrait of the people who have lived there, weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs.
20 May 2011
Nuvem, a young man with a strong penchant for stroll and daydream and little given to work, prefers the company of dogs and clowns.
01 January 1999
A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.
13 March 2009
João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop concealed in the basement of an obsolete nearly deserted shopping center.
21 October 2018
For two years, we filmed in an ancient convent of the seventeenth century, which houses the Conservatory of Music of Lisbon.
15 December 2012
A reporter and a camera operator from a Macau TV channel embark on a journey to south of China.
01 January 2010
All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected.
01 January 1997
Traveling by the experience and by the roots of one of the strongest manifestations of Portuguese popular culture – singing polyphonic Alentejo.
19 November 2025
Gaspard, a teenager from the suburbs of Lisbon, falls into the hands of the Ogre, a man who has made a pact with the Devil.
18 October 2025
Searching for redemption, a mother and a daughter go beyond their limits to break free from their comfortable but suffocating lives.
01 September 2022
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view.
21 July 2018
Rute is a teenager like so many others: she goes to school, she has swimming lessons, she likes watching films and specially she loves to be online.
30 June 2014
Hidden memories and lost treasures of our primeval inhabitants.
01 August 2002
A 20 year old young man asks some kids if he can play football with them. They think it’s weird and ask him how old is he.
01 January 2012
The gallery attendant in an art gallery or museum is a fundamental piece in its mise-en-scéne, his main role is to see and be seen.
14 October 2002
Everything threatens to crack and yet this devouring march happened long ago in the past. There is no moaning in the room next door, the wind has stopped blowing on the stairs, the air particles throw themselves against each other, but it’s only void against void.
01 April 2012
This documentary follows a group of prison inmates as they prepare to perform the annual Easter ritual, the Via Crucis, with a community of villagers in the northeast region of Portugal.
06 July 2015
A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.
