
Gonçalo Oliveira
Writing
Known For

A medieval tale about a soldier and his responsibility in announcing the tragic death of the King in combat.
The Night of the King

An essay film that focuses on rebuilding the idea of the Paralympic athlete through a historical revisiting of the Paralympic games. The archival images are accompanied by two voices of contemporary Paralympians that reminisce on their work as athletes and the way they and other people have dealt with their disabilities.
PARALYMPIA

An anxious young man struggles to accept his vulnerabilities whilst on holiday in an upper-class summer residence in Sardinia with his overtly masculine family.
Shooting Watermelons

Unholy unfinished project.
Badlands

A journalist, in the diligence of reuniting informations to complete the biography of a missionary priest that travelled Africa, visits the village and the abandonned house in which he lived and died. Once there, he acknowledges that not even his scepticism will free him from the forces that persist there.
A Entrevista

Dawn. Through the mist, morning's early light arises. But a stronger one stands out. It's a wildfire that spreads in the distance. From her home, in the top of the mount, a worried woman faces the flames. But it's not the proximity of danger that troubles her. Inside her house, her daughter sleeps, indifferent to the smoke that enters her room.
Our house in flames

A film-poem dedicated to the introspection of a subject that sees himself stuck to his non identity, trying to redefine it through the Seventh Art. "She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word “death.” She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being." - Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human

A short documentary directed by Francisco Dias.
Maremória

A girl runs away from home to be with her friend, a fantastic forest creature, while her parents desperately try to find her.
Se na floresta um sopro

A short experimental film exploring the limits of language through the robotic reading of a poem.