Rui Poças Movies

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

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

An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi.

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...

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

Short film.

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...

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

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

GURIA is an astute dramedy about everyday life in a village in western Georgia. This poignant, yet humorous slice of life, brims with charming,...

A reflection on loss, pain, sex and breathing.

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...

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose...

A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...