Directing
Inês Oliveira
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Inês Oliveira studied at the Superior School of Theatre and Cinema, in Lisbon, until 2000. With one of the most multifaceted curriculums of the young Portuguese film generation, not only in terms of education – such like in edition, photography, sound and screenplay – but also through the experience this director has also acquired. Nome e o N.I.M is one of Inês Oliveira’s most appreciated works after being widely awarded as a short film. Recently, Inês Oliveira directed a documentary Comer o Coração de Rui Chafes e Vera Mantero, that focused on the work of the pair which is a relation of exception in the Portuguese contemporary art.
Known for
NRNeko and his friends meet in the city center one late summer afternoon. They tour the streets of a city that seems to be a teenager in flux just like them. They meet other young people sprawled on the grass, by the Tejo river. Among them is Matilde, who sees in Neko her best friend from nursery school, Carolina, with whom she has lost contact...
Neko
2025
NRAdaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.
The Frog and the Girl
2018
Every year the Portuguese Army recruits thousands of Citizens to constitute the National Service. At 10 pm ligths are killed in the quarters. “Hey? Are you awake? Those guys are fucking you up, you hear me? I mean, I don’t know you man, but to me you’re like a brother.”
O Nome e o N.I.M.
2003
8.0Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Cinerama
2010
This film follows the process of creating Eating Your Heart Out. This work of art presented at São Paulo Biennal of Arts in 2004, was the first collaboration between the Portuguese artists Rui Chafes (sculptor) and Vera Mantero (choreographer and dancer). The result is a huge iron sculpture where the dancer performs a mysterious play, suspended in the air, with paintings all over her body.
Eating Your Heart Out
2005
10.0Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Bobô
2013
Behind the camera
NRNeko and his friends meet in the city center one late summer afternoon. They tour the streets of a city that seems to be a teenager in flux just like them. They meet other young people sprawled on the grass, by the Tejo river. Among them is Matilde, who sees in Neko her best friend from nursery school, Carolina, with whom she has lost contact...
Neko
2025
NRAdaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.
The Frog and the Girl
2018
NRAdaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.
The Frog and the Girl
2018
Every year the Portuguese Army recruits thousands of Citizens to constitute the National Service. At 10 pm ligths are killed in the quarters. “Hey? Are you awake? Those guys are fucking you up, you hear me? I mean, I don’t know you man, but to me you’re like a brother.”
O Nome e o N.I.M.
2003
Every year the Portuguese Army recruits thousands of Citizens to constitute the National Service. At 10 pm ligths are killed in the quarters. “Hey? Are you awake? Those guys are fucking you up, you hear me? I mean, I don’t know you man, but to me you’re like a brother.”
O Nome e o N.I.M.
2003
8.0Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Cinerama
2010
8.0Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Cinerama
2010
This film follows the process of creating Eating Your Heart Out. This work of art presented at São Paulo Biennal of Arts in 2004, was the first collaboration between the Portuguese artists Rui Chafes (sculptor) and Vera Mantero (choreographer and dancer). The result is a huge iron sculpture where the dancer performs a mysterious play, suspended in the air, with paintings all over her body.
Eating Your Heart Out
2005
10.0Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Bobô
2013
10.0Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Bobô
2013
A film about the human relation with artificial intelligence.
Recolha de Dados
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NROver the course of seven years, Mariana Viegas photographed the sets of some of the last productions shot on 35mm. Today, she returns to the perspective she had as a young woman, back when she worked with directors such as Šarūnas Bartas, Pedro Costa, João César Monteiro and Manoel de Oliveira. Joined by a few guests, she will take us on a journey through a surprising archive, in an encounter between photography and cinema, creation and life.
Visitas de Uma Parente Afastada
2026
