
Directing
António Pinhão Botelho
Born 1986-05-25 · Lisbon, Portugal
Born in Lisbon, in 1986, António Pinhão Botelho is a Portuguese actor and director. Graduating from Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2008. Pinhão Botelho released the short-film O Rio in 2014. By 2018 the director presented his first feature, Ruth, detailing an important moment in Eusébio da Silva Ferreira’s life – one of the most important portuguese soccer players. He was also assistant director of Le Cahier Noir (Valéria Sarmiento, 2018) and The Domain (Tiago Guedes, 2019).
Acting credits
7.3A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Hard Times
1988
7.2The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Mysteries of Lisbon
2010
5.7Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
Traffic
1998
NROne day they meet randomly on the street: João is unemployed, Clara works in the film industry as a production assistant. They were colleagues at film school. She invites him to participate in this film she’s working on. “Eternal Flame” it’s a melancholic comedy about the dynamics of a film crew and the growing pains of a young slacker. A homage to the family of Portuguese cinema and cinema itself
Eternal Flame
2025
NRJoe arrives early for his second date with a girl - on Valentine's Day. As he waits he wrestles inside with past relationships and the stress that is to fall in love with some one.
Minutes: To Spare
2010
Behind the camera
NRAbout a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.
Vile
2012
NRAbout a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.
Vile
2012
NRAbout a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.
Vile
2012
NRDavid keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.
J.
2026
NRDavid keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.
J.
2026
NRFábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.
Like so..
2011
NRFábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.
Like so..
2011
NRFábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.
Like so..
2011
NRPeter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.
Madeleine
2009
NRPeter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.
Madeleine
2009
NRPeter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.
Madeleine
2009
NRA digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power and enchantment of fiction.
O Fascínio das Histórias
2019
6.7This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Ruth
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Os Chapéus-de-chuva De Chocolate
2012
NRJoana and Samuel's relationship has a specif routine.
The River
2014
NRJoana and Samuel's relationship has a specif routine.
The River
2014
NRJoe arrives early for his second date with a girl - on Valentine's Day. As he waits he wrestles inside with past relationships and the stress that is to fall in love with some one.
Minutes: To Spare
2010
NRJoe arrives early for his second date with a girl - on Valentine's Day. As he waits he wrestles inside with past relationships and the stress that is to fall in love with some one.
Minutes: To Spare
2010
8.0A reorganization within a crime syndicate.
Blackpot
2023