Jorge Silva Melo Movies

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

The painter Sofia Areal is a singular case in the portuguese arts. Her paintings are expansive, open, solar, vital and affirmative. The documentary...

A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

José de Guimarães's artistic life changed when he went to Africa in 1967 on military service. A revisit to his past.

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the...

A documentary about Gravura, the Portuguese cooperative founded in Lisbon in 1956.

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

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...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house,...

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s...

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is...