João Rui Guerra da Mata

Um Filme Português

Levi Martins, Vítor Alves

Manuel Mozos, Rita Azevedo Gomes

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

China, China

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Jialiang Chen, Luís Rafael Chen

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 wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with iniquity and purgatory is a kindergarten...

Alvorada Vermelha

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.

A Última Vez Que Vi Macau

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.

IEC Long

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?

O Que Arde Cura

João Rui Guerra da Mata

João Pedro Rodrigues

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

O Fantasma

João Pedro Rodrigues

Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.

Onde Fica Esta Rua?

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Isabel Ruth

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, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.

Où en êtes-vous, João Pedro Rodrigues ?

João Pedro Rodrigues

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Parabéns!

João Pedro Rodrigues

João Rui Guerra da Mata, Eduardo Sobral

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.

Mahjong

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.

Aqui, em Lisboa

Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier

Francisca Castillo, Carloto Cotta

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

L'oiseau de la nuit

Marie Losier

Deborah Krystal, Cindy Scrash

Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.

Um Quarto na Cidade

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

A game of references and a tribute to director Jacques Demy. It’s also an opportunity for the two directors to recall Demy’s A Room in Town (the film’s namesake) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the importance these movies had for them.