
Nicole Noia
Directing
Biography
Nicole Noia (1996, Porto) is a film director and photographer. She's from a small town in Northern Portugal called Aves - which she's quite proud of being from. Coming from a very nostalgic family, it was looking to her family archives of VHS, Super 8, and photographs that portray their experiences, that she discovered her passion about stories told from a personal perspective and family portraits on film. With a focus on documentary, her films are born from memories.
Known For

Activist Jeremy Kewuan faces the invisible power of ideology and faith as he combats traditions of present-day slavery on a remote Indonesian island.
Slave Island

Centers on André Malby, a well-respected shaman believed to have healed many people. He is revisited by a devoted believer convinced that he saved her life, and his estranged son, Mathu, an orthodox doctor who turned away from his father’s path.
Supernatural

Part of Vale do Ave historical context, Woman of my people takes us on a journey through the textile factories and their stories. Conceição, the director's grandmother, tells her personal story, reflecting on the role of women in the factory in the social context of Vila das Aves in the sixties.
Woman of my people

This film combines fictional and documentary treatment and uses photographic archives, real images and the oral testimony of women from the regions of Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alto and Baixo Minho who, between the 1940s and 1980s, came to Porto to work as domestic servants.
So Small, Looking All Grown Up

Fernando lived most of his life as a merchant in São Tomé de Negrelos, where he met the love of his life, Mariazinha. His life changed and Fernando died with a broken heart.
I fear the end of things

A reflection on time, the act of observation, the future and the concept of happiness. Within the context of the pandemic and social isolation, Marta and Matilda exchange letters through e-mail portraying intimately a generation.