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João Miller Guerra

João Miller Guerra

Filipa REIS (1977), and John MILLER GUERRA (1974)live and work together in Lisbon, Portugal. They directed documentaries from the (Best Portuguese Short Film, IndieLisboa'15), bella Vista (Best International Short Film FIDOC'13, and Honorable Mention MiradasDoc'13), one Cat (the Best Portuguese Short Film, IndieLisboa'12 and Revelation Prize at the Festival Luso-Brazilian Santa Maria, the film'12), Generation (new york, Nada Fazi (Best Portuguese Film-Fantasporto'12-and-audience Award-Festival of the Cortex'12), and" Li Ké Terra (Best English feature film Festival'10 and a Special Jury Mention MiradasDoc'11). Their films were presented at international festivals such as Cinéma du Réel, IDFA, DokLeipzig, Bordocs, forumdoc.connect with the Festival dei Popoli, the Film's Look, the Recife International Film Image, FIDBA, Dok.Fest Molodist, Parnu, between others. Their first feature fiction film is currently in post-production. Together, they have a film production company with A Rock in your Shoe, responsible for films like the Ballad of a Batráquio by Leonor Teles, who won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival in'16.

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Movies Made By João Miller Guerra (20)

Grand Tour (2024)

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia. ...

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Légua (2023)

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challen ...

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The Tsugua Diaries (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. ...

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A Pleasure, Comrades! (2021)

1975, the year after the Carnation Revolution. Eduarda, João and Mick come from Northern Europe to work in the co-ops in the occupied farms of central Portugal. Like many others, they come to help with the land and the livestock, give medical appointments ...

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The Life We Know (2020)

Cláudia Ribeiro spent seven months – since the time of plantation till the crops – capturing the work in the fields of the sisters Ana e Glória, in Passinhos de Cima, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega. It is an isolated place, where the baker, the ...

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Dogs Barking at Birds (2019)

School is over and there's a hustle in the air. In Porto, tourists fill up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now the highlights of the city's gentrification. Vicente moves around town on his bike and watches the urban changes happening day t ...

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Party Day (2019)

Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara's seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organise a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious. ...

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Ashore (2018)

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon. Divided between the quiet solitude of the river and the family ties that wash him ashore, the film follows Albertino Lobo, as nature renews itself with each se ...

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Djon Africa (2018)

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias "Djon África," born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, "a player and a crook." His fathe ...

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Life Out There Has It Been Seen? (2018)

Minas de São Domingos is a small village built on a mine in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Today, the mine, which in other times kept its neighbours in employment, is no longer operating. It is difficult to imagine a future for this slightly forgotten l ...

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Cidade (2017)

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in the social housing neighborhoods and s ...

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Batrachian's Ballad (2016)

"Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another", narrates the voiceover. "All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn't invited to the celebration – th ...

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The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness (2014)

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person's geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual's experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school's archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro ...

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Fragmentos de Uma Observação Participativa (2013)

While observing others, Paula is also, herself, observed. ' Know the difference between an old maid and a spinster? The old maid does not have a choice. ...

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The End of the World (2013)

A portrait of the daily lives of young people living in a new-built estate on the outskirts of Lisbon. School is a joke and there's no work to be had anyway, so the girls try to have fun as best they can. New-girl Eva is very pretty but quiet. The others a ...

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Cat's Cradle (2012)

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared to us as a porcelain doll, small, fragile, pale, with a little hair bow. Little by little, she crumbled apar ...

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Nada Fazi (2012)

Three researchers embark on a study, "10 Years of Social Reintegration in the Casal of Boba neighborhood". A film camera used for their research is stolen and, as it is passed from hand to hand, records a crime. Nada Fazi (Creole for "It's inevitable") is ...

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Bela Vista (2012)

Lives being lived, words, gestures, gazes cross our paths, amidst a chaos en framed by a rectangular grid of windows and balconies. Rows of buildings interconnected by corridors perched over courtyards. Each ones property off their private slice of the vie ...

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Orquestra Geração (2011)

Generation Orchestra is a portrait of the impact of an initiative by the same name students from the Miguel Torga School, in Amadora. The initiative was inspired by the international project Orquestra Simon Bolivar, the apex of the National Network of Yout ...

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Li Ké Terra (2010)

The story of Miguel Moreira and Ruben Furtado, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants who live in Portugal but have no legal documents. They are torn between the desire to be a full Portuguese citizen and the obstacles they find in their day to day. Proud ...

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Movies Starring João Miller Guerra (4)

Cidade Rabat (2024)

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs into a coming of middle age story. ...

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Ubu (2023)

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfre ...

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Primeiro Passo (2022)

Short film about a shy singer. ...

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The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness (2014)

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person's geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual's experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school's archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro ...

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