António Ferreira

Directing

António Ferreira

Born 1970-12-08 · Coimbra, Portugal

António Ferreira made his debut in Cannes with "Breathing Under Water" (2000), selected for the Cinéfondation official competition. He has directed five feature films, awarded at dozens of international festivals. His work blends intimate narratives with social and family themes, reaching wide international audiences.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Fatal Gel poster
9.0

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta).

Fatal Gel

1996

Fatal Gel poster
9.0

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta).

Fatal Gel

1996

El Justiciero poster
10.0

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".

El Justiciero

2009

WC poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

WC

1997

WC poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

WC

1997

Jongo poster
8.0

Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Jongo

2013

Rockumentary poster
1.0

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

Rockumentary

2006

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work poster
10.0

There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and the social power that has been denied to them. This film is a journey into the underworld of sex workers and their struggle for labour rights.

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work

2011

Embargoed poster
10.0

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last.

Embargoed

2010

Low Tide poster
7.0

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Low Tide

2012

The Scent of Things Remembered poster
5.5

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

The Scent of Things Remembered

2025

The Scent of Things Remembered poster
5.5

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

The Scent of Things Remembered

2025

The Scent of Things Remembered poster
5.5

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

The Scent of Things Remembered

2025

The Days Off poster
NR

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

The Days Off

2026

Codename: Angola poster
6.0

In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the operation code name "Angola" fled over 100 african students abroad towards freedom, amongst them several future leaders of african countries.

Codename: Angola

2015

Humanos: Ao Vivo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Humanos: Ao Vivo

2006

Humanos: Ao Vivo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Humanos: Ao Vivo

2006

Super Vodka poster
10.0

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.

Super Vodka

2012

That Weekend poster
6.0

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

That Weekend

2021

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory poster
10.0

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

2012

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory poster
10.0

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

2012

Saturday's Lunch poster
8.0

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships.

Saturday's Lunch

2013

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone poster
10.0

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

2007

Magnetick Pathways poster
10.0

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Magnetick Pathways

2019