Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
2021José e Pilar
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
José Saramago, Pilar del Río
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
José & Pilar
Nada Tenho de Meu
João Paulo Cuenca, Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Portuguese director Miguel Gonçalves Mendes and Brazilian writers Tatiana Salem Levy and João Paulo Cuenca traveled to the Far East to exchange experiences with artists and thinkers from Macau, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
Nada Tenho de Meu
Floripes
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Selma Cifka, Catarina Barros
The legend of Floripes, is about an enchanted moor of Olhão, in the Algarve. Enchanted moors are one of the cornerstones of Portuguese mythology. They are often seductive and being temptresses, they can offer a powerful reward, but also a terrible curse. Left in Portugal during the Reconquista while her family went back to North Africa, beautiful Floripes was condemned to roam her ancient kingdom in the Algarve until a man could undo her curse. Then she would marry him and give him her fabulous treasure. But if the man fails, she must eat his heart.
Floripes
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Rita Azevedo Gomes
José Mário Branco, Manuela de Freitas
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
O Labirinto da Saudade
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Eduardo Lourenço, Adriana Calcanhotto
Documentary adaptation of the book "Labirinto da Saudade," a deconstruction of the Portuguese ethos from a philosophical and historical point of view, written by Eduardo Lourenço.
O Labirinto da Saudade
O Sentido da Vida
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Giovane de Sena Brisotto, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure.
The Meaning of Life