
Acting
Aug 21, 1957
Portugal
Filomena Gigante
Acting
Biography
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Feature Films (20)

Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique. As the two grow closer, they develop a spiritual bond steeped in attraction.
Espinho

Eulália, a conservative Portuguese mother, found out that her son who emigrated to Germany has become Fostter Riviera, the internationally awarded first Portuguese gay porn actor. She suffers with the distance, sometimes toned down through the computer that has become her main source of information and communication with her son. This documentary focuses on the long journey of this mother towards acceptance and endeavour to get closer to her son.
Until Porn Do Us Part

Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.
Broken Windows

Maria is a shellfisherwoman and midwife in a small village in the Illa de Arousa in 1970s Galicia. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee to Portugal.
The Rye Horn

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships.
Saturday's Lunch

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.
Sefarad

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
Surdine

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Historic Centre

A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path.
Por um fio

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.





