João Matos Movies

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

Mirages have been reported along the Spanish coast. A young French woman travels to San Sebastián to observe these visual aberrations. There,...

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of...

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this...

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and...

A film about a show and the issues the players face during their collective artistic work. Will we ever be able to leave our cocoons towards a...

From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People...

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each...

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the...

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave...

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...

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,...

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native...

4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

This film tries to make a silent record of the arrival of an economy of scale, its flows, and its effects upon the transformation of an...

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They...

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...