Rui Poças Movies

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

An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s...

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language...

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,...

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,...

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...

Early morning and everybody leaves home to work. Jeremias, the gardener, hears the telephone ringing in the house. The front neighbour has a...

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

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...

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...

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...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...