Jorge Quintela Movies

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"...

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

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about...

"Wood was uninterruptedly burning in the home, of that centrifugal place whose actors still offered new worlds to the world born from the sweat of...

Penumbria was founded two hundred years ago, in a distant istmus - a place of arid soils, angry seas and violent weather. The city was due its name...

Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they know it.

Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a...

It is not the landscape that changes. Every service station is a service station. What changes is being in movement.

A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza.

Caught in time, a trio of prehistoric characters lives around a dolmen. One of them, who is hyperactive, tries to stir his mates emotions with...

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...

A pocket movie on a train between two stations in Berlin.

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

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.

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...