Fernando Matos Silva

O Meu Avô Republicano (2012)

There is a photograph from 1937, the year of my parents wedding, taken at Sta. Isabel's Church. In it, my grandfather José Rodrigues Vieira has a sad pose. He married his daughter and was politically dismissed by the State. He is an old republican, tormen ...

O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village ...

Cochin (2003)

A documentary organized around the promotion of Indo-Portuguese cultural heritage, with commented pictures of the most striking examples of civil and religious architecture and housing areas marked by portuguese traditional construction. Patent portuguese ...

E Neste Nada Cabe Tudo - Sobre João Cutileiro (1998)

E NESTE NADA CABE TUDO is shot for television (already on video – thus exploring its plastic potential) and examines the work of the sculptor with a special focus on the famous and polemic 25 de Abril monument. ...

Ao Sul (1995)

Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He's back now. Every ...

Alentejo, As Quatro Estações (1991)

ALENTEJO, AS QUATRO ESTAÇÕES is a gorgeous essay on the landscapes of Alentejo, based on a beautiful text by Baptista Bastos, spoken by José Wallenstein. ...

Killing the Saudades (1988)

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. ...

Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte (1981)

Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary. ...

Guerra do Mirandum (1981)

The story of a town—Miranda do Douro—and its inhabitants, victims of a catastrophe on May 8, 1762. Around 350 to 400 people died, houses were destroyed, and many were injured. The war, which was external to those people, victimized them in the worst wa ...

Acto dos Feitos da Guiné (1980)

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first. ...

O Meu Nome É... (1978)

The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justice against a "pide" assassin (eted). But the April 25 and May 1, to September 28 and March 11, follows the ...

Argozelo (1977)

The Guns and the People (1977)

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known. ...

O Mal-Amado (1974)

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived bec ...

Caminhos da Liberdade (1974)

Documentary about the Portuguese Revolution of April 25th, 1974 which focuses on events like the siege of the Carmo quarters and the release of the political prisoners at Forte de Caxias. ...

A Bee in the Rain (1972)

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. ...

Estoril - Costa do Sol (1972)

Produced by Francisco de Castro, to promote tourism in the beaches around Lisbon. ...

Por um fio... (1968)

A film on the work in the electric cable industries of Diogo d'Ávila in Alfragide. ...

Marionettes, Inc. (1967)

The school film of Fernando Matos Silva made in the London School of Film Technique. An adaptation of the homonimous tale of the writer Ray Bradbury. ...

Tejo - Na Rota do Progresso (1967)

Film commissioned by Lisnave. ...

Enchanted Isles (1965)

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end. ...

The Green Years (1963)

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappin ...

Fantasmas do Império (2020)

Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as Fern ...

Os Cravos e a Rocha (2015)

On April 25, 1974 the iconoclastic Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha was in Portugal. There, he joined the collective collective film "As Armas e o Povo". With his foreign and peculiar look, he broke the rules of conventional filmmaking. ...

O Mal-Amado (1974)

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived bec ...