Movies: Patrick Mendes

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past....

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia....

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is ...

A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom....

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones....

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly...

An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice little trip goes terrible wrong when his own paranoia takes over the events that follow... or maybe not....

Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth....

Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sist...

Mata-Ratos, a legendary Portuguese punk band, have played in football stadiums, sports halls, bars, performance venues, cultural associations, nightclubs, bandstands, parties and garages. They now celebrate their fortieth anniversary and director Pat...

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality....

A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome....

After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé t...

A father's journey to save his son....

The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country....

In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force....

Essay House of Fun, is a journey to create the dramatic reading of the feature script HOUSE OF FUN, from the gender transition in the context of the 1990s, and the challenges of producing an audiovisual work in a short space-time....