Movies: João Pedro Bénard

  • 2017
    Far From Amazónia

    Far From Amazónia (2017)

    Far From Amazónia

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    In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the artifacts belonging the tribes he studied and the animals and plants he brought over to Portugal, evoking...

    Far From Amazónia
  • 2022
    Worth Your Weight in Gold

    Worth Your Weight in Gold (2022)

    Worth Your Weight in Gold

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    Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness....

    Worth Your Weight in Gold
  • 2015
    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You (2015)

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

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    "In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I ch...

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
  • 2009
    Alfama

    Alfama (2009)

    Alfama

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    A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All this is sad / All this is fado....

    Alfama
  • 2025
    Imitação de Vida

    Imitação de Vida (2025)

    Imitação de Vida

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    Imitação de Vida
  • 1990
    The Sound of the Shaking Earth

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1990)

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth

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    Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som...

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth
  • 1989
    A True and Faithful Account

    A True and Faithful Account (1989)

    A True and Faithful Account

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    The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violenc...

    A True and Faithful Account