Directing
Miguel Seabra Lopes
He studied with Dušan Makavejev, Jos Stelling, Christian Hossner, Ursula Meyer, Atelier MTK. He attended the Film School, among others. He was a member of the Teatro do Vestido group. He was a member of the production company AS-Produções. He worked in film as an assistant director, producer, screenwriter, editor, director. He also worked in television and advertising. His work was exhibited in Locarno, Marseilles, Angers, Rotterdam, Uppsala, Festival of Rio, etc, ne awarded at IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Tabor, Recife Window, Victoria, Marilia, etc. He teaches History of Cinema and Design in Script Free Course, AIC (RJ).
Acting credits
A Portuguese king who disappeared in the desert of Morocco in the sixteenth century comes forward. Under the threat of having to return to Portugal in the XXI century, Dom Sebastian reveals his whereabouts and the secrets of the kingdom he built over all these years in faraway Ilha de Lençóis in Northeastern Brazil.
The King
2014
5.0Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
2015
5.0One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Poor George
1993
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
1983
Behind the camera
1.0“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Fire
2011
Luís phobia of water triggers a series of dreams that drag him to his death, simultaneously transferring his subconscious to his wife.
Adrift
2000
NRChild solidarity is stronger than death.
Sulfur
2024
NRIf I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.
Confident
2016
5.0Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
2015
5.0Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
2015
5.0Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
2015
In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.
Alaska
2009
6.1Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever.
The Fever
2021
Insomnia drains the soul, only the body remains. Gustavo decides to get rid of the body.
Perimeter
2006
Insomnia drains the soul, only the body remains. Gustavo decides to get rid of the body.
Perimeter
2006
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Graça Morais – As Escolhidas
1998
NRCinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.
In a Foreign Country
2018
NRThe Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
2015
In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.
Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6
2023
Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on psychotherapeutic practices, wich allow for intervention on the Person, improving the preserved abilities, implementing autonomy and rehabilitating identity.
Who lives in my mind
2010