Ângela Marques

The Flame of a Candle (2025)

Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with ...

A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor (2024)

A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul ...

Quando o Diabo Reza (2022)

On one side, a bunch of crooks. On the other, two sisters. Nothing unites them except an idea: to relieve the bank account of an old man, who happens to be the sisters' father. The crooks devise a plan to gain his trust and swindle him. The sisters make pl ...

A Luz de Judá (2020)

"1618" is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews. ...

The Last Bath (2020)

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled. ...

Surdine (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. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to bec ...

The Nun's Kaddish (2019)

The Nun's Kaddish is a short film that portrays a true story of inter-religious kindness when a Nun observes a Jewish ritual, raising the spirituality of the two faiths towards a higher ... ...

Gabriel (2019)

A young cape-verdean fighter will have to enter a dangerous boxing match to try to save his father. ...

Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real (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. The film and an accompanying b ...

Sefarad (2019)

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal. ...

Uma Vida Sublime (2018)

Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects? ...

O dia em que as cartas pararam (2017)

In the 1960s, António, an agent of the PIDE, is assigned to follow Aurora to Paris, a young woman suspected of oppositionism. It is May 1968, and during the student revolt, the two young people fall in love. Back in Porto, their forbidden passion ends abr ...

Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me (2016)

"An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira's cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordina ...

The Amazed Spectator (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? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How man ...

Marasmus (2015)

Fragments of light and shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter. ...

Ornament and Crime (2015)

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for belief ...

Encontradouro (2014)

Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley. ...

Liberdade Condicional (2014)

Five low-life people find themselves trapped in a public toilet. ...

Fatal Sin (2013)

A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship. ...

3x3D (2013)

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway. ...

A Ceia (2013)

A man suffers from amnesia after an accident. ...

CineSapiens (2013)

Acentuado Arrefecimento Nocturno (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. Tensions, jealousy, and feelings of guilt lead Adam, Eve, and Cain to gang up against Abel, forcing him to mak ...

Tamed (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. ...

Tebas (2007)

Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy "King Oedipus" crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic "On the Road". The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his ori ...

A Imitação (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 sci ...

The Uncertainty Principle (2002)

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. ...