Diogo Varela Silva

After Dance – A Concert Film (2024)

A large, time-worn house sits on a towering, untouchable pedestal. Ressaca Bailada – Filme Concerto follows individuals as they navigate their relationship with freedom, unity, and isolation within this setting. Celebrating tradition while confronting an ...

The Shrovetide Devil (2024)

Lazarim's shrovetide is one of the most genuine and ancient carnival celebrations in Portugal. O Diabo do Entrudo explores the fascinating caretos and their elaborate costumes, enabling not only an overview of the carnival celebrations, but also a reflexio ...

João Ayres, an Independent Painter (2022)

It's a story with many layers. It's about the painter João Ayres (1921-2001), an artist in transit between Portugal and Africa who became forgotten in the narrative of Modern Art. It's also a story about his family, who inherited a significant body of wor ...

From the Neighbourhood (2021)

Within the beating heart of Alfama and Mouraria, the hoods meet to tell their story. ...

Naufrágio (2021)

A study about memory, an example of obsession or a prison in itself. Rodrigo chooses to submerge himself in a memory, regardless of what got him there or what might happen. Within this dream Rodrigo is happy. When confronted by the memory itself we are lef ...

Zé Pedro Rock ‘n’ Roll (2020)

Zé Pedro, the legendary guitar player of Xutos e Pontapés, is the greatest name in Portuguese rock 'n' roll. He was its main driving force, not only as the founding guitar player of the greatest Portuguese band ever, but also by promoting the genre as a ...

Alfama em Si (2018)

Cabaret Maxime (2018)

A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be. ...

The Ornithologist (2016)

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests. ...

Celeste (2015)

This film celebrates the 70th anniversary of Celeste Rodrigues' career as a fado singer. It is an intimate and sincere portrait of the artist, narrated in first person and driven by the fondness of the director, her grandson. The archive images reveal the ...

The Lecture (2013)

An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice little trip goes terrible wrong when his own paranoia takes over the events that follow... or maybe not. ...