Miguel Melo

Terra Nova (2021)

Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's "The Lugger" and "In the Seas of the End of the World", this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the ...

Kalebegiak (2016)

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian. ...

O Leão da Estrela (2015)

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win? ...

Outra Forma de Luta (2014)

In early 1985, the writer Nuno Bragança hands his friend Carlos Antunes a 13 question's questionnaire; 13 sheets of graph paper, of which he offered the recto-verso of each for his friend to answer. The questions were about Carlos Antunes' personal and po ...

Kunta (2007)

One night, the phone rings in a traditional Portuguese snack bar from the country side. The Spanish Civil Guard is looking for Kunta. He isn't there and till he arrives people speculate about those phone calls and about who is that man. His he a thief? A t ...

Lavado em Lágrimas (2006)

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresis ...

A Bomba (2002)

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV. ...

April Captains (2000)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it. ...

Passa por Mim no Rossio (1992)

Oxalá (1981)

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman. ...