João Rui Guerra da Mata
Also Known As: not available
Biography: João Rui Guerra da Mata was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. He teached Art Direction at the Lisbon Film School from 2004 to 2011. In 1997 he co-starred in the short PARABÉNS!, directed by João Pedro Rodrigues, that won the Special Jury Mention at the 54th Mostra di Venezia. As an Art Director, he worked in several features and shorts, notably the ones directed by João Pedro Rodrigues, whose films he also co-scripted. This collaboration lately evolved to co-direction, namely in the shorts CHINA, CHINA (2007) – 39th Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes; Best Short Film and Audience Award, Belfort Film Festival and ALVORADA VERMELHA (2011) – Best Portuguese Short Film, IndieLisboa Film Festival; international premiere at Locarno Film Festival. O QUE ARDE CURA (2012) is his debut solo film.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Fantasma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-20
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-08-06
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Happy Birthday!
Overview: Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-09-03
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Here in Lisbon
Overview: Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?
Overview: João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-28
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Mahjong
Overview: Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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A Portuguese Film
Overview: A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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L'oiseau de la nuit
Overview: Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
Overview: From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-08-05
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