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