Regina Guimarães

Percebes (2024)

With the sea and urban Algarve as the backdrop, we follow a complete life cycle of a special shellfish called percebes, the goose barnacle. ...

Love Lights (2022)

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a revisitation of geographical places and memories. ...

Trabalhos de Canto (2022)

It introduces a women's singing group from Alentejo, their testimonies about the periods of the dictatorship and the April revolution, and their experiences working in the fields before and during the agrarian reform. With the presence of the authors and t ...

Caderno da Casa Mundo (2022)

Notebooks filled with words and outbursts remind us of a series of works by Regina Guimarães—her notebooks; works that take the form of a kind of visual diary, revealing (...) not only her inner universe, but also her relationship with the world and its ...

Cineclube (2021)

Discussing cinema during a pandemic – a revisit to an online film club, after thirty post-viewing discussion sessions that took place during the first lockdown. ...

caderno do confinamento (2021)

On March 13, 2020, my head, my body, my home, turned into a kind of convent. This is the videographic notebook of confinement, an object made by more than a hundred hands, because my cinema, my infra-proto-cinema, must be made by everyone, and the more it ...

A Escura Prata da Casa (2021)

A film by Regina Guimarães ...

A Menina de seu Pai (2020)

A film by Regina Guimarães ...

Caderno de ver até haver Verão (2019)

A film by Regina Guimarães ...

Geni (2018)

Everything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, ...

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. ...

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal (2013)

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father's place in the house. But the village is too small for ...

Acentuado Arrefecimento Nocturno (2013)

The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently. Tensions, jealousy, and feelings of guilt lead Adam, Eve, and Cain to gang up against Abel, forcing him to mak ...

Pequenos Teatros de Rua (2013)

Pequenos Teatros de Rua a short film directed by Regina Guimarães ...

A Menina Dos Olhos (2012)

A documentary view of the practices of popular culture in the most jubilant of the local pagan festivities. ...

Sem Cura - à saúde de Manoel de Oliveira (2011)

Ateliers Ângelo (2011)

Ateliers Ângelo films the artist's Ângelo de Sousa workspaces shortly after his death. Its absence is now an immense presence and impossible to represent. ...

Antónia (2007)

Antónia didn't play with dolls, nor did she learn to read and write at the age when children go to school and don't usually sell their labor power. She experienced the harsh social inequalities of Salazarism. Used to toiling from sun up to sun down, work ...

Mau Dia (2006)

From Jacques Prévert's poem "Petit déjeuner du matin", Mau Dia experiences a dilation of the time in which the banality hides the lived drama. ...

Meu Deus (2005)

An altarpiece and a portrait, whose composition obeys the digressions and ramblings of a handful of people, around their intimate relationship with God. ...

O Çul Verão (2005)

A journey through the Portuguese Ongoing Revolutionary Process ...

A Casa Esquecida (2004)

Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms, the necessary time to be able to, provisions made, get on the road again. Once, with the sun at its peak and a b ...

Vanity (2004)

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fash ...

A Imitação (2003)

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray sci ...

As Sereias (2001)

The night of the summer solstice. Fireworks resound between the two banks of the river like a bombardment. On the water, boats appear and disappear. Lost in the dark, rich and poor dissolve under the coloured firework lights. Is it war? Is it the light of ...

Dentro (2001)

Porto 2001 project, made in the prison of Paços de Ferreira. Nuno Cardoso, the play director, develops this work with the prisoners during the time period of one year. Documentation of the process: conversations with the prisoners in the context of the p ...

Antes de amanhã (2001)

A film motivated by anger at the frivolity with which sex is treated in cinema. On the aquarium screen, an attempt is made to materialize thought. ...

The Heart's Root (2000)

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young ...

River of Gold (1999)

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat operator Antonio. Not long after their union, she becomes intensely jealous of Antonio's fondness for their w ...

Má Sina (1996)

In an empty theatre, a woman is watching an American film - "Ma's Sin" - which tells the weird revenge story of a middle-aged wife, driven mad by jealousy and a deep feer of dying. During the screening, the viewer's fantasies embodied in male characters ha ...

O sono da Europa (1995)

Was Europe asleep? Has it woken up since it decided to adhere to a sleepwalking idea? ...

Mudas Mudanças (1980)

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way. ...

We Are on Air (2024)

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia's apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly ...

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. ...

Life Lesson (1995)

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's va ...

Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável (1974)

On a farm in rural Brazil in the 18th century, a new overseer arrives. He falls in love with one of the enslaved women, Mestiça, beloved by all the men. When a pair of silver earrings disappears from the farm and the overseer orders the leader of the ensl ...