Portuguese filmmaker. He studied at Comibra University’s Faculdade de Ciências and at Porto University’s Faculdade de Engenharia. He was the director of CITAC. He was part of the Coimbra and Porto cinema clubs. He taught at Escola Técnica de Matosinhos, worked as an illustrator for children’s books and as a graphic arts professional since 1970. He studied at the National Conservatory’s Escola de Cinema. He was a film critic for newspapers and magazines and founded the cinema magazine M. He started directing with two short-films for RTP and the feature-length documentary “Os Bonecos de Santo Aleixo” for the Paz dos Reis coop. His films have received awards at Figueira da Foz, Antuérpia, Rio de Janeiro, Venice, Berlin, Salsomaggiore, Pesaro, Belfort, Cartagena and Varna, among other festivals. He was twice awarded the OCIC prize by Casa da Imprensa and Sete de Ouro. All his feature-length films had commercial releases in Portugal, almost all of them in France, and some in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan. A full retrospective of his work was screened at Bergamo (1996), at La Rochelle, along with the publication of a monograph (1998), and at Cinemateca de Luxemburgo (2002). He was bestowed the Commendation for cultural merit of the Order of Prince Henry (2005).
FILMOGRAPHY
2017 – Peregrinação
2016 – O Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira e Eu
2015 – Nos Campos em Volta
2014 – A Arte da Luz tem 20.000 Anos
2014 – Quatro
2014 – Os Maias
2012 – Enquanto la l’héngua fur cantada
2010 – Filme do Desassossego
2010 – Oh, Lisboa Meu Lar!
2009 – Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe
2008 – A Corte do Norte
2007 – Corrupção
2007 – A Terra Antes do Céu
2006/07 – A Baleia Branca, uma Ideia de Deus
2006 – Avé Maria
2005 – O Fatalista
2005 – A Luz na Ria Formosa
2003 – A Mulher que acreditava ser Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América
2003 – As Mãos e as Pedras
2001 – Quem és Tu?
1999 – Se a Memória Existe
1998 – Tráfico
1996 – 13 Filmes X 3’
1994 – Três Palmeiras
1993 – Aqui na Terra
1991 – No Dia dos Meus Anos
1987 – Tempos Difíceis
1985 – Um Adeus Português, 1985
1980 – Conversa Acabada
1978 – Alexandre e Rosa
1977 – O Alto do Cobre
1977 – Um Projecto de Educação popular
1977 – Os Bonecos de Santo Aleixo