Rui Poças

Bury Your Dead (2025)

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink o ...

Sleepless City (2025)

La Cañada Real, on the outskirts of Madrid, is one of the largest illegal shanty towns in Europe. Tonino, a 15-year-old Roma boy, has always lived here with his family. With his best friend Bilal, they film the world around them using a mobile phone, insp ...

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. ...

Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2023)

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, ...

The Rye Horn (2023)

Maria is a shellfisherwoman and midwife in a small village in the Illa de Arousa in 1970s Galicia. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee to Portugal. ...

Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023)

Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child. ...

Tinnitus (2023)

Marina Lenk is an experienced synchronized diver. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness. ...

Amadeo (2023)

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» accor ...

The Club of Angels (2022)

Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious coo ...

Alma Viva (2022)

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over ...

Will-o'-the-Wisp (2022)

On his deathbed, His Majesty Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories from the time when he dreamt of becoming a fireman. His encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two y ...

A Little Love Package (2022)

Vienna, 2019 – the end of an era. The smoking ban in public places means that a part of Kaffeehaus culture has disappeared. Of all moments, this is the one that Angeliki chooses to buy an apartment with help from her interior designer friend, Carmen. Ang ...

If I Were the Winter Itself (2020)

Four friends meet on a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works that embodied the social and artistic revolution of 50 years ago. ...

Frankie (2019)

When a terminally ill French actress decides to spend her last vacation with her large family in Sintra, her relatives grapple with their own insecurities. ...

Introduzione all'oscuro (2018)

Gaston Solnicki plays himself in this cinematic tribute to his friend Hans Hurch. ...

Hilda Hilst Pede Contato (2018)

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictio ...

Good Manners (2018)

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child. ...

Rust (2018)

Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story becomes the end. ...

Sandra Calling (2017)

A reflection on loss, pain, sex and breathing. ...

Zama (2017)

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia. ...

Al Berto (2017)

Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right ...

Severina (2017)

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts li ...

My Only Earth Is in the Moon (2017)

Sergio answers 36 questions to make Gabriel fall in love. Did you know Glauber was a Pisces? ...

The Ornithologist (2016)

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests. ...

Deserto (2016)

A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered ...

Campo de Víboras (2016)

In a small Portuguese village, a tragedy occurred. An old lady is found dead in her garden, surrounded by snakes, while her 40 year-old daughter, Lurdes, fled without telling anyone. The gossips in town about the mysterious destiny of this house are spread ...

The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exc ...

Morning of Saint Anthony's Day (2012)

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony's Day (the national holiday of Lisbon's patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love. ...

As the Flames Rose (2012)

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns. ...

Tabu (2012)

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past. ...

A Vossa Casa (2012)

Indefatigable worker and in multiple artistic fronts, the architect Raul Lino (1879-1974) left us a fundamental work for the understanding of the Portuguese ways of being and inhabiting. The film approaches that legacy starting from texts published by the ...

Two Women (2009)

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a ...

To Die Like a Man (2009)

A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing with her ne'er-do-well son, a soldier who's gone AWOL. ...

O Tapete Voador (2008)

Our Beloved Month of August (2008)

In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity... ...

Álvaro Lapa: A Literatura (2008)

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an artist, and a painter. Eventually, the artist started writing, and impressing the cultural world of his co ...

Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente (2008)

Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo". ...

From Now On (2008)

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness. ...

China, China (2007)

China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with ini ...

Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side (2007)

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer's personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira doc ...

Canticle of All Creatures (2006)

An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi. ...

Two Drifters (2005)

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui. ...

Adriana (2005)

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he decided to send his daughter, Adriana, to the mainland to form a family by natural methods. ...

The Face You Deserve (2005)

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s ...

Conversas com Glícínia (2004)

A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house, prisons, experimental theaters, surrealists, the encounter with José Ernesto de Sousa on the unfolding of Cinema N ...

Andre Valente (2004)

An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a curious and ...

Maria e as Outras (2004)

Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be hap ...

Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill (2004)

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes. ...

O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village ...

Rádio Relâmpago (2003)

A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a mysterious female lead singer of a now long gone band. He sets himself to start another pirate-radio, now ...

A Morte do Cinema (2003)

Duplo Exilio (2001)

David is born in Portugal but lived his whole life in the US. At 24 is he accused of a crime he didn't commit and is deported to his native country. ...

Close (2001)

Short film. ...

Christmas Inventory (2000)

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas. ...

Another Country (2000)

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their dreams and expectations and what came out of the revolution. With outstanding historical footage. ...

O Fantasma (2000)

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he become ...

Boris and Jeremiah (2000)

Early morning and everybody leaves home to work. Jeremias, the gardener, hears the telephone ringing in the house. The front neighbour has a message. Conceição, the maid, called: she won't be able to come today, Jeremias has to make lunch for Boris. Wat ...

Entraste no jogo, tens que jogar assim na terra como no céu (2000)

Meanwhile (1999)

A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach. ...

Joaquim Bravo, Évora 1935, Etc. Etc. Felicidades (1999)

Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive Portuguese galleries, the 111 in Campo Grande. Its doctrinal influence and its enormous capacity for enthusiasm would ...

A. Palolo: Ver o Pensamento a Correr (1995)

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the artist's generation, Silva Melo is able to depict the oeuvre and the artistic persona of António Palolo. ...

Eléctricos (1994)

You'll Never Get Rid of Me Again (1993)

Maria do Carmo discovers she is HIV positive. On impulse, she goes to the home of João, her former partner. Three lives, two relationships. Two women and one man. ...

Acts of Cinema (2018)

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians. ...

Amour en latin (1989)

In an enclosed space of a café for an entire night, a set of characters try to verbalize their thirst for love and their fear that love will overwhelm them. ...