Ângela Ramos
Acting
Biography
Ângela Ramos is a Portuguese actress, Film Director and Editor from Porto, Portugal. She studied film direction at Lisbon's Film & Theatre School and has an MA in Film Directing and another in Film Editing from the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia. In acting, she is known for Bela Mandil (2019), directed by Helena Estrela. Ângela directed Camarim (2016), Não Há Cigarras no Inverno (2017), and CAPUT (2020). Her films are known for having a solid feminist motif that touches on topics like gender, psychological abuse, and mental health.
Known For
At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet faces starvation, mutiny, and the psychological toll of endless seas. Upon reaching the shores of Cebu, Magellan is pulled into a fatal conflict with the natives by his drive to spread Catholicism, culminating in his tragic doom.
Magellan
It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.
Where the Summer Goes (Chapters on Youth)
Through saline paths, hand in hand, two lovers wander, in “Bela Mandil”.
Bela Mandil
Edgar is preparing for another show as transformist when faced with her son's arrival, Lawrence. Seeing him in a place that until then he didn't know, Edgar questions about the position to take: family or spectacle. The two worlds seem incompatible, but something changes in their relationship.
Camarim
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
The Luminous Life
One day they meet randomly on the street: João is unemployed, Clara works in the film industry as a production assistant. They were colleagues at film school. She invites him to participate in this film she’s working on. “Eternal Flame” it’s a melancholic comedy about the dynamics of a film crew and the growing pains of a young slacker. A homage to the family of Portuguese cinema and cinema itself
Eternal Flame
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Capsule
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Entre Las Rocas
A spin-off of Lav Diaz's Magellan (2025), focusing on Beatriz's side of the story during her husband's maritime expedition. Plot TBA.
Beatriz, The Wife
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