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

Behind the camera

Fire poster
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

No artwork available
NR

Luís phobia of water triggers a series of dreams that drag him to his death, simultaneously transferring his subconscious to his wife.

Adrift

2000

Sulfur poster
NR

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Sulfur

2024

Confident poster
NR

If 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

October Is Over poster
5.0

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

October Is Over

2015

October Is Over poster
5.0

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

October Is Over

2015

October Is Over poster
5.0

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

October Is Over

2015

No artwork available
NR

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

Alaska

2009

The Fever poster
6.1

Justino, 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

No artwork available
NR

Insomnia drains the soul, only the body remains. Gustavo decides to get rid of the body.

Perimeter

2006

No artwork available
NR

Insomnia drains the soul, only the body remains. Gustavo decides to get rid of the body.

Perimeter

2006

Graça Morais – As Escolhidas poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Graça Morais – As Escolhidas

1998

In a Foreign Country poster
NR

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

In a Foreign Country

2018

Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe poster
NR

The 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

No artwork available
5.0

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6

2023

No artwork available
NR

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