João Pedro Rodrigues

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.

Esta é a Minha Casa

João Pedro Rodrigues

João Pedro Rodrigues films the holiday journey of an emigrant family from Paris to their homeland in Trás-os-Montes. Footage from the couple's daily life in Paris - he is a cobbler and she is a janitor - combined with records from their car journey through French and Spanish highways to Portugal and with moments of their holidays.

Viagem à Expo

João Pedro Rodrigues

When filming “Esta é a Minha Casa”, the Fundos confessed to the director their desire to come to Lisbon. The Portuguese capital was then frequently featured in the French social media, due to a campaign of promotion of EXPO. A year later, during the summer holydays, João Pedro Rodrigues films the family again on their tour of the capital’s historical sites and the suburbs and on their trip to Expo or the Luz Stadium.

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...

Le jour où le fils de Raïner s'est noyé

Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux

João Pedro Rodrigues, Adélaïde Leroux

Night falls slowly… The inhabitants of the village have found the body of Rainer's youngest son, drowned in a river. In front of the family home, through a window, the villagers observe Rainer and the rest of the family seated peacefully in the parlor. Who will give them the terrible news?

To Die Like a Man

João Pedro Rodrigues

Fernando Santos, Alexander David

A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing with her ne’er-do-well son, a solider who’s gone AWOL.

The Ornithologist

João Pedro Rodrigues

Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

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.

O Pastor

João Pedro Rodrigues

Casimiro Oleiro, Joaquim Rato

João Pedro Rodrigues' gradutation short film.

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.

Manhã de Santo António

João Pedro Rodrigues

Filipe Abreu, Joana Areal

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.

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 Corpo de Afonso

João Pedro Rodrigues

Xelo Cagiao, Daniel Maroñas Mourelos

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Franco Maresco, John Akomfrah

Bernardo Bertolucci, Haile Gerima

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

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.