Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

The Meaning of Life (2021)

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure. ...

Retratação (2019)

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last great ...

O Labirinto da Saudade (2018)

Documentary adaptation of the book "Labirinto da Saudade," a deconstruction of the Portuguese ethos from a philosophical and historical point of view, written by Eduardo Lourenço. ...

Cruzeiro Seixas - The Letters of King Artur (2017)

Cruzeiro Seixas lives in a maze where every path leads to Mário Cesariny. Subdued by that obsessive love and hate relationship, Cruzeiro Seixos did not fully live, but left proofs of that non-existence: 95 years of paintings and poetry that await full rec ...

Nada Tenho de Meu (2013)

Portuguese director Miguel Gonçalves Mendes and Brazilian writers Tatiana Salem Levy and João Paulo Cuenca traveled to the Far East to exchange experiences with artists and thinkers from Macau, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ...

Lisboa - Palavras para uma Cidade (2012)

José & Pilar (2010)

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for c ...

Poema Colagem - Homenagem a Mário Cesariny (2010)

Zarco (2008)

Segunda-Feira (2008)

A woman, distressed by waiting, isolates herself at home. On the other side, a man tries to reassure her over the phone, but only the emptiness of morning television programs and her obsession with a film distract her. The news finally arrives. Part of the ...

Dedicated To The One I Love (2008)

Azinhaga (2007)

Curso de Silêncio (2007)

Floripes (2005)

The legend of Floripes, is about an enchanted moor of Olhão, in the Algarve. Enchanted moors are one of the cornerstones of Portuguese mythology. They are often seductive and being temptresses, they can offer a powerful reward, but also a terrible curse. ...

A Batalha dos Três Reis (2005)

During their vacation in Morocco, David suggests to Laura that they visit Vasco, an old friend of his. Laura objects, but David eventually convinces her, leading her on a journey of no return, where they will experience an insane game of jealousy and the r ...

Autography (2004)

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality. ...

D. Nieves (2001)

The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1990)

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Te ...