
André Guiomar
Directing
Biography
André Guiomar (1988) lives in Portugal. He worked for several film production companies and is a founding partner of Olhar de Ulisses. His debut documentary “Our Land, Our Altar” premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest, won the Youth Jury Award at the ZINEBI Festival and the Emerging Director Award at the Porto/Post/Doc International Competition. In 2018, his short documentary “Skin of Light” won the Jury Prize at Doclisboa. He is currently working on his new documentary film “New Chung – The Strenght of a Bull” and on a short fiction film entitled “Saturn”. He also worked on cinematography and editing of films like “The Mother and the Sea” (2013) from Gonçalo Tocha (winner of the national DocLisboa award in 2014 and awarded with the best editing at Cineport) and the fiction film “Mabata Bata” (2017) by Sol de Carvalho, for which he received a distinction at the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival for best editing. At Olhar de Ulisses, he produced several of films with selections for festivals like Berlinale, Cairo IFF and Curtas Vila do Conde.
Known For

Benjamin is trying to raise money through informal exchanges so that he can organize his son’s overdue birthday. Filimone is visiting his family between war missions, trying to be present at the growth of his three daughters. Eulália is a mother of six and gives birth to a new premature baby. Some days after, she has to come back to her job in a landfill.
Ku Handza

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2' Minutos para Mudar de Vida

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Horse Money

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

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Píton

In Mozambique, Izidine, a young police inspector, is called to investigate the murder of Vasto Excelêncio, the director of a nursing home built within the walls of an old colonial slave fortress. He is shocked when all the elderly residents, as well as the head nurse, Marta, confess to the murder. Each one has motive, given Excelêncio’s abusive behavior. With only a week to solve the case, the detective slowly unravels truths about the murder, Mozambique's colonial past, and himself.
The Anchorage of Time

A group of skaters take refuge in a shopping mall, making it their playground. As they spend time skating the empty hallways, the stillness creeps in. It's a dead end.
Cul-de-sac

A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
Pena Fria

In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.
Infinite Sea

A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that together they can piece together a memory of their shared past.
God-and-a-Half

In a village where time and space run out, a child dwells in the death vortex.
Our Kingdom

Documentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?
Our Land, Our Altar

Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.
Pele de Luz

Set against the looming backdrop of growing urban towers, a teenage boy navigates the fragile space between adolescence and adulthood.
Torres

The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.
Saturn

One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.
Light Was a Break
Short film by Eloy Serén
Não Falarei

Everyone remembers well that night of the burning pigs. José was born the morning after, and some say that he came from that fire, and became man out of the pigs. When his mother dies, José leaves the village for the first time, in search of something more.
José Combustão dos Porcos

Filmed in one of the remaining social housing towers of Aleixo (Porto, Portugal), “Bicicleta” tells the story of a family living under economic pressure.
Bicicleta

What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.