Jorge Quintela

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 ...

The Worst Man in London (2024)

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail. ...

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 ...

The Nothingness Club (2023)

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under ...

2nd Person (2022)

One day, an old water pipe caused a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic mushrooms of the order Polypo- rales would grow. Sitting on the toilet, the lady of this house looks up and observes that magical and mys- terious fungus, which is not an animal, nor ...

The Kegelstatt Trio (2022)

Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E-flat may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart... ...

A Arte da Memória (2021)

The art of memory is a classic technique that associates images with places through a process of remembrance and meaning. From the memory of places and their context, the documentary delves into the creative process of three contemporary visual artists: Da ...

Around Rocha’s Table (2021)

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha's universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key to decipher some of the unknown symbols and allusions contained in his films. ...

Infinite Sea (2021)

In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose. ...

A Present Light (2021)

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana. Suffering from a heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike. ...

Down by Life (2020)

A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida. ...

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 ...

Quantic Love (2019)

A mysterious shadow unveiling a female figure walking naked towards us in the desert. In another sequence, the same woman speaks on the phone, talking about the end of the world. In a third moment, a couple prepares breakfast in their apartment, with the s ...

Magnetick Pathways (2019)

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse. ...

O Toucador (2019)

Blue Breath (2018)

Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they know it. ...

Armindo e a Câmara Escura (2018)

Teresa (2017)

Teresa evokes a memory. A memory as a place of resistance. A memory suspended in space and time. A place one can return to. The fragmented image of an intimate record. The impression of moments forgotten in time but ready to emerge from oblivion—moments ...

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 ...

Mabata Bata (2017)

Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage. Azarias' dream is to be a normal ...

Eusébio: Story of a Legend (2017)

It all started in Mafalala, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. A kid kicked into rag balls and did not care much about school. This kid was called Eusébio da Silva Ferreira and would become one of the best footballers o ...

Ubi Sunt (2016)

Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of a audiovisual research residency of humam and urban exploration of an expanding city. Ubi sunt qui ante ...

The Artificial Humors (2016)

Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with a robot that also happens to be a stand-up comedian. This strange story mixes ...

Correspondences (2016)

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a tes ...

Penumbria (2016)

Penumbria was founded two hundred years ago, in a distant istmus - a place of arid soils, angry seas and violent weather. The city was due its name to the almost permanent shadows and cloudiness. One day, its inhabitants decided to leave, offering Penumbri ...

The Hunchback (2016)

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation that forces its employees to 'relax' at company-run medieval reenactments. ...

A Brief History of Princess X (2016)

A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is in fact a bust of Napoleon's incredible great-niece, Marie Bonaparte. ...

The Cause and the Shadow (2015)

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary. ...

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 ...

Old Wives’ Tales (2015)

"Wood was uninterruptedly burning in the home, of that centrifugal place whose actors still offered new worlds to the world born from the sweat of their brows and the clandestine sap of their dreams. ...

Vila do Conde Extended (2015)

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and others heard. ...

The Keeper (2015)

Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to live. Aurora passes by him every morning and end of the day. One day she is brave enough to talk to him. ...

Here in Lisbon (2015)

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being d ...

Freud und Friends (2015)

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes's unconscious. ...

Over El Cielo (2015)

Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky. ...

Escala (2014)

A man returns to his hometown many years after a forced departure. He confronts his memories from childhood and from the past, he looks for the old faces and places, but seems that they're not there anymore. The distance grows even more. ...

Carousel (2013)

A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza. ...

The Imperfect Cradle (2013)

Two childhood friends grew up and face strange feelings now. One of them tries to explore that feelings by words and their relationship becomes uncomfortable. When the words stay in silence they discover what they are looking for. ...

Desire for Beauty (2013)

Four people turn to plastic surgery as the last resort in their search for perfection - their appearances will change, but will their lives? ...

CineSapiens (2013)

Não São Favas, São Feijocas (2013)

Generational conflict within people who live for the countryside, in the countryside. The director and her grandmother. ...

The Gravedigger (2012)

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where hea ...

Luís (2012)

A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal's greatest poet. Luís de Camões is considered Portugal's national poet, an equivalent to England's Shakespeare or Spain's Cervantes. João Lopes's film takes u ...

Hay Road (2012)

This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set bet ...

To the Wolf of Madragoa (2012)

An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de Carvalho, otherwise known as The Wolf of Madragoa. ...

The Scoundrel (2012)

The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town. ...

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. ...

Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument (2011)

It is not the landscape that changes. Every service station is a service station. What changes is being in movement. ...

Mazagão, a Água que Volta (2011)

Ausstieg (2010)

A pocket movie on a train between two stations in Berlin. ...

The Invisible Collection (2009)

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life. ...

Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse (2009)

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: "I don't follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractioni ...

Arca D'Água (2009)

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat. ...

Flow (2008)

He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she's trapped... ...

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. ...

Beard (2011)

Caught in time, a trio of prehistoric characters lives around a dolmen. One of them, who is hyperactive, tries to stir his mates emotions with inventions and works of art. A strange object made out of bone, which re frames reality, will trigger greed and e ...

Count Ferreira (2003)

In a mental institution a man flies forever. Shot in the psychiatric hospital "Conde Ferreira" in Porto. ...