Edgar Pêra Movies

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a...

Seven competing reporters are assigned to cover the Carnavael de Torres Vedras in Lisbon. Each of the seven tries to attract as much audience as...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

Braga’s Estádio Municipal was erected for the EURO 2004 championships. So can it be a surprise that the first association this...

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like...

A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

José Carlos Fernandes is one of the most original Portuguese comic book authors. He has published more than 30 books, particularly the...

The unconventional biography Perpetual Movements: A Cine Tribute to Carlos Paredes uses snippets of the guitarist's work as well as archival...

A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of...

In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from...

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the...

Some years ago, the Palácio de São Bento suddenly shook from visitors singing Zeca Afonso’s 1972 Grândola, Vila Morena in...

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She...

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on...

Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a...

"Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How...

A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from Portugal

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an...

Tommi Musturi is one of today’s most complex comic book authors. Much like a chameleon, this artist employs different illustration styles to...