Jorge Silva Melo Movies

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

“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...

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 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 documentary about Gravura, the Portuguese cooperative founded in Lisbon in 1956.

Documentary about the painter Ângelo de Sousa

The painter Sofia Areal is a singular case in the portuguese arts. Her paintings are expansive, open, solar, vital and affirmative. The documentary...

"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...

Jorge Silva Melo's follow-up to his 2007 documentary film "Nikias Skapinakis - O Teatro dos Outros".

Fernando Lemos, a creator who stood out for photographing actors, artists and writers in Portugal from the 1940s and 1950s.

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 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...