Fernando Lopes
1936 - 2012Belarmino
Fernando Lopes
Belarmino Fragoso, Maria Amélia Fragoso
Former boxing champion Belarmino answers a psychological facing the camera in close-up. Then the camera follows him in his daily routine, at home with his family, oggling the women and working as doorman to a night-club, as well as the of training and boxing sessions.
Belarmino
As Armas e o Povo
Glauber Rocha, Fernando Lopes
Glauber Rocha, Adelino Gomes
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.
As Armas e o Povo
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Manuel Mozos
Alberto Seixas Santos, António da Cunha Telles
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Recollections of the Yellow House
João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Recollections of the Yellow House
Carlos de Oliveira: Sobre o Lado Esquerdo
Margarida Gil
Luís Miguel Cintra, Fernando Lopes
Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.
Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
A Bee in the Rain
Fernando Lopes
Laura Soveral, João Guedes
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
A Bee in the Rain
O Delfim
Fernando Lopes
Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
O Delfim
Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
Fernando Lopes
Zita Duarte, Vanda França
With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling the story of a small film crew in a village living day to day.
Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
João Lopes
Fernando Lopes, João Lopes
Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo".
Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
Matar Saudades
Fernando Lopes
Rogério Samora, Teresa Madruga
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
Matar Saudades