André Guiomar

Directing

André Guiomar

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

André Guiomar (1988) lives in Portugal. He worked for several film production companies and is a founding partner of Olhar de Ulisses. His debut documentary “Our Land, Our Altar” premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest, won the Youth Jury Award at the ZINEBI Festival and the Emerging Director Award at the Porto/Post/Doc International Competition. In 2018, his short documentary “Skin of Light” won the Jury Prize at Doclisboa. He is currently working on his new documentary film “New Chung – The Strenght of a Bull” and on a short fiction film entitled “Saturn”. He also worked on cinematography and editing of films like “The Mother and the Sea” (2013) from Gonçalo Tocha (winner of the national DocLisboa…

Known for

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After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

Wild is the Wind

2026

Horse Money poster
7.2

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

Horse Money

2014

Ofélia poster
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Amid dynamics of power, desire, and seduction, Ofélia follows two teenagers who discover their mutual attraction on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, while simultaneously seeking to define their identity and place within an everchanging society.

Ofélia

2025

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Short film by Eloy Serén

Não Falarei

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At Sixteen poster
NR

What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.

At Sixteen

2022

Espinho poster
8.0

Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique. As the two grow closer, they develop a spiritual bond steeped in attraction.

Espinho

2023

Film credits

Behind the camera

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After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

Wild is the Wind

2026

Ofélia poster
NR

Amid dynamics of power, desire, and seduction, Ofélia follows two teenagers who discover their mutual attraction on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, while simultaneously seeking to define their identity and place within an everchanging society.

Ofélia

2025

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Eloy Serén

Não Falarei

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At Sixteen poster
NR

What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.

At Sixteen

2022

Espinho poster
8.0

Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique. As the two grow closer, they develop a spiritual bond steeped in attraction.

Espinho

2023

Ku Handza poster
NR

Benjamin is trying to raise money through informal exchanges so that he can organize his son’s overdue birthday. Filimone is visiting his family between war missions, trying to be present at the growth of his three daughters. Eulália is a mother of six and gives birth to a new premature baby. Some days after, she has to come back to her job in a landfill.

Ku Handza

2025

Ku Handza poster
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Benjamin is trying to raise money through informal exchanges so that he can organize his son’s overdue birthday. Filimone is visiting his family between war missions, trying to be present at the growth of his three daughters. Eulália is a mother of six and gives birth to a new premature baby. Some days after, she has to come back to her job in a landfill.

Ku Handza

2025

Píton poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Píton

2011

That's How I Love You poster
NR

While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.

That's How I Love You

2024

Torres poster
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Set against the looming backdrop of growing urban towers, a teenage boy navigates the fragile space between adolescence and adulthood.

Torres

2013

Torres poster
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Set against the looming backdrop of growing urban towers, a teenage boy navigates the fragile space between adolescence and adulthood.

Torres

2013

Light Was a Break poster
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One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.

Light Was a Break

2024

Cul-de-sac poster
7.0

A group of skaters take refuge in a shopping mall, making it their playground. As they spend time skating the empty hallways, the stillness creeps in. It's a dead end.

Cul-de-sac

2024

The Dark Knot at the Center poster
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Drawing from an archive of letters written in the 1960s, the film reimagines women's clandestine journeys from across the United States to Mexican border towns to access underground abortion care.

The Dark Knot at the Center

2026

50 l 50 poster
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50|50 looks at the frustrations and triumphs that couples still encounter as they try to find a balance between raising children and working. Each story unveils the obstacles and prejudices that men and (mostly) women still have to overcome. This documentary sheds light on the roads to conciliation, giving voice to ambitious, career-oriented women, but also to couples who are struggling to have children or to share their unpaid domestic duties fairly. 50 | 50 evaluates the advancements accomplished while also questioning whether the ongoing progress is sufficient in light of the times we live in.

50 l 50

2022

Our Land, Our Altar poster
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Documentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?

Our Land, Our Altar

2020

Our Land, Our Altar poster
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Documentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?

Our Land, Our Altar

2020

God-and-a-Half poster
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A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that together they can piece together a memory of their shared past.

God-and-a-Half

2024

Saturn poster
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The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.

Saturn

2022

Saturn poster
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The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.

Saturn

2022

Saturn poster
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The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.

Saturn

2022

Pele de Luz poster
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Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.

Pele de Luz

2018