Jorge Quintela Movies

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

The art of memory is a classic technique that associates images with places through a process of remembrance and meaning. From the memory of places...

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo"...

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and...

A man returns to his hometown many years after a forced departure. He confronts his memories from childhood and from the past, he looks for the old...

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the...

A reserved student joins a radical organization in early 1980s Portugal and is shot and lynched following a bank robbery, while a filmmaker leaves...

Teresa evokes a memory. A memory as a place of resistance. A memory suspended in space and time. A place one can return to. The fragmented image of...

It all started in Mafalala, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. A kid kicked into rag balls and did not care...

In the 1960s, António, an agent of the PIDE, is assigned to follow Aurora to Paris, a young woman suspected of oppositionism. It is May 1968,...

The short documentary explores the transformation over the decades of the Stop Shopping Center in Bonfim, Porto, framing its history within the...

An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de...

Generational conflict within people who live for the countryside, in the countryside. The director and her grandmother.

In a mental institution a man flies forever. Shot in the psychiatric hospital "Conde Ferreira" in Porto.

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she’s trapped...

A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the...

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary.

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.