Miguel Seabra Lopes
Directing
Biography
He studied with Dušan Makavejev, Jos Stelling, Christian Hossner, Ursula Meyer, Atelier MTK. He attended the Film School, among others. He was a member of the Teatro do Vestido group. He was a member of the production company AS-Produções. He worked in film as an assistant director, producer, screenwriter, editor, director. He also worked in television and advertising. His work was exhibited in Locarno, Marseilles, Angers, Rotterdam, Uppsala, Festival of Rio, etc, ne awarded at IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Tabor, Recife Window, Victoria, Marilia, etc. He teaches History of Cinema and Design in Script Free Course, AIC (RJ).
Known For
Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever.
The Fever
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Graça Morais – As Escolhidas
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Poor George
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.
Lisbon-Province
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Fire
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.
Confident
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Luís phobia of water triggers a series of dreams that drag him to his death, simultaneously transferring his subconscious to his wife.
Adrift
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.
Alaska
Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on psychotherapeutic practices, wich allow for intervention on the Person, improving the preserved abilities, implementing autonomy and rehabilitating identity.
Who lives in my mind
Insomnia drains the soul, only the body remains. Gustavo decides to get rid of the body.
Perimeter
Child solidarity is stronger than death.
Sulfur
In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.
Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6
A Portuguese king who disappeared in the desert of Morocco in the sixteenth century comes forward. Under the threat of having to return to Portugal in the XXI century, Dom Sebastian reveals his whereabouts and the secrets of the kingdom he built over all these years in faraway Ilha de Lençóis in Northeastern Brazil.
The King
Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.