Jorge Silva Melo Movies

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

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

"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...

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less...

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

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...

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

Ana Vieira's place in Portuguese art is unusual: working the trail, the shadow, the passage of light (or bodies?), the reflection, the overlap, the...

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial...

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a...

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

A film by portuguese filmmaker Jorge Silva Melo.

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

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in...

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

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...

A 2017 documentary film by portuguese filmmakers Jorge Silva Melo e Miguel Aguiar.