António Borges Correia
2021In 1998, I made the first short film, "Golpe de Asa/“Flying Away”, which arrived in Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Vila do Conde.I continue to experiment with short films until 2002 and in 2007, i directed the first documentary,
"O Lar”/“Le Foyer”, a project that comes from the time of the Film School. Was shown in Paris at the Pompidou Center (Cinéma du Réel) and traveled through some international festivals. After another documentary project with war veterans, I produced and directed "Parto”/“Delivery”, following the logic of the characters who play their own role. Continued the following year with "Gesto”/“Sign” a film about a deaf boy who aspires to be a filmmaker. In 2015, “Os Olhos de André”/“André’s Eyes”, premieres at IndieLisboa, with 3 awards, including best film in the national competition, traveling in other places: Québec, Hong Kong, Gijón, London and Paris. A new film is done, “The Hours of Light” that has its debut in IndieLisboa.
Apoteose
António Borges Correia
Anabela Brígida
Forty years later six ex-fighters, that had been together in the War in Africa, keep meeting. They know that, during those meetings, talking about the War is therapy to exorcize nightmares and ghosts. What keeps them alive is what destroyed them: Memories. Life has never been the same. They had twenty two years old when they met at the War. Time has stopped there. Today, they only exist when they are together.
Apotheosis
O Lar
António Borges Correia
Village of Reboleiro, north of Portugal. 103 old people live at Santa Catarina Residence. They wake up, they walk by the corridors. A few others are exercizing at the living room. Some assistants work at the kitchen, or at the laundry. The president is looking after the vacancies. The psychologist interviews some old people, analyzing their memory. Sometimes they go on a trip by bus. It's a different day. They used to be country people. The major part of those old people have missed already the idea of Time in a strange Space for them. There's a great desire to communicate, they don't want to be alone. They need to come back to their homes. They knock at the doors of each others, they pray, they walk by the residence corridors, they wait.
O Lar
Há Sempre um Amanhã
António Borges Correia, Ricardo Inácio
Diogo Infante, Maria João Falcão
Paulo Lima is an engineer responsible for a multinational factory. Due to the recession, the factory receives a visit from the factory's owner's daughter, Luísa, who is sent to increase the factory's profit. Some cuts are due to make.
Há Sempre um Amanhã
Os olhos de André
António Borges Correia
Lydie Bárbara
André's Eyes is an experimental docudrama in which the actual family members themselves participate in the recreation of their own story. Set in a small village in the Portuguese countryside, the film follows the struggle of a divorced father to keep his family together after his youngest son is taken away from them and placed in a foster family.
André's Eyes
Gesto
António Borges Correia
António Coelho, Alexandra Lencastre
Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But it may be worth losing the world to conquer the universe where deaf and hearing listen in the same gesture.
Gesto
Rapaz Só
António Borges Correia
Hugo Araújo, Cláudia Semedo
After seeing his mother and younger siblings emigrate, Hugo imagines a movie about his loneliness as a way to solve this unexpected shock. He meets a director and proposes his idea, a film where he will represent his role with the real characters that surround him. The mother, the school and the grandfather refuse to participate. Hugo is increasingly alone and goes into depression, something that is ruining his relationships with friends and girlfriend. He can not sleep, he's late for class, he's not interested in anything ... "Lonesome Boy" deals with the consequences of emigration by the eyes of a teenager and ist’s about his own loneliness, how he solved it, how he survived ...
Lonesome Boy
The Hours Of Light
António Borges Correia
Anabela Brígida, Paula Só
Maria da Luz is almost blind. She's been waiting for cataract surgery for 3 years. António, an old fisherman, takes care of her, hiding the secret of an old love. Miguel, a mysterious boy, wanders through the city, watching daily for Maria's house. Luís, the mayor, seeks to solve the problem of hundreds of people with cataracts in the Municipality. Ana, Maria's daughter visits her mother. Despite their misfortune, they seek to redeem themselves under the eyes of António and Miguel. Maria da Luz is not alone.
The Hours Of Light
