Miguel Martins Movies

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental...

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...

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand...

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after...

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and...

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...

An intimate documentary exploring friendship, resilience, and love among a group of young people in Madrid. Through a cinéma...

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...

A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse,...

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be

UM CORPO DE DANÇA is a proposal for the history of the body, showed through the path of the biggest Portuguese dance company of the 20th...

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know...

In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...

A chronology of the Avenue Almirante Reis in Lisbon. Its past and present. A portrait of those that inhabit it.

Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Maureen Fazendeiro’s film is a...

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...