Jorge Silva Melo Movies

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an...

A film by portuguese filmmaker Jorge Silva Melo.

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by...

Documentary about the painter Ângelo de Sousa

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