Miguel Sales Lopes

Movies

Idade Óssea – Um Filme em Sete Quadros
Producer
Through a stimulant intercross of techniques -which incorporates not only photography but also traditional animation and stop motion, among others- Isabel Aboim Ingles constructs a collage that is so playful as it is personal, in which she reflects on the pass of time, ages, aches and human nature.
Idade Óssea – Um Filme em Sete Quadros
Editor
Through a stimulant intercross of techniques -which incorporates not only photography but also traditional animation and stop motion, among others- Isabel Aboim Ingles constructs a collage that is so playful as it is personal, in which she reflects on the pass of time, ages, aches and human nature.
Empty Hands
Co-Producer
Empty Hands
Director of Photography
Parque Mayer
Director of Photography
Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Mario Pintor (paintor) is writing a play in which a new actress (Deolinda) will star as the main role, while an already famous actor named Eduardo tries to seduce this recent arrival.
Não Esquecerás
Director of Photography
The Voice and Ears of MFA
Colorist
Documentary short about the April’s Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Military officers – namely Captains and Majors – who banded together to overthrow the Authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal for over 40 years.
The Voice and Ears of MFA
Director of Photography
Documentary short about the April’s Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Military officers – namely Captains and Majors – who banded together to overthrow the Authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal for over 40 years.
Addictions for a Happy Family
Director of Photography
Mariana, a thirty-year-old woman, is hidden in a coats room, during a Christmas party. A distant cousin discovers her and they establish a relationship where some painful truths about life and their family history come to surface for the first time.
Impossible Love
Director of Photography
Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.
Road of Nothing
Cinematography
Life is as unchanging as ever in the village: the sun sets between memories. The arrival of a young outsider changes everything. The old are offered a new gift and they accept it. The dreams awaken an old song which pulses through the village. 'With Fate driving the cart of everything along the road of nothing.'
Inside Out
Director of Photography
João, a homosexual individual develops amnesia and forgets that he's homosexual.
7 Pecados Rurais
Director of Photography
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins ​​who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
A Teia de Gelo
Director of Photography
The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.
Com Que Voz
Cinematography
Com Que Voz is a documentary that recounts the life of Alain Oulman, an important cultural figure during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, who left an indelible mark on Portuguese and French society. The film, shot in Lisbon, Paris and Tel Aviv, features celebrated authors, politicians and musicians, such as: Patricia Highsmith, Amos Oz, Amalia Rodrigues and Mario Soares.
O Último Condenado à Morte
Director of Photography
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Goodnight Irene
Director of Photography
Two solitary men embark on a journey to find a missing woman...
Fados
Camera Operator
A drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.
Dot.com
Director of Photography
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
El primer siglo del Prado
Cinematography
Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Cinematography
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
The Girl with the Dead Hand
Cinematography
Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.
The Girl in the Mirror
Cinematography
A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses.
The Policewoman
Director of Photography
A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.
O Ralo
Camera Operator
After a sink full of soapy water empties through a gurgling drain, a finger appears from underneath: Zé, a plumber, is at work. Eva, the lady of the house, interrupts him wearing little but a smile. She coaxes him out and seduction begins, interrupted by the surprise arrival of her lover, Carlão, a gun-toting criminal. Zé hides under the sink, watching through the drain hole as Carlão gives Eva a valuable necklace and makes love to her. Carlão is called away abruptly on business only to have his enemy Zim arrive a minute later to claim the necklace. Zé's still under the sink observing as mayhem descends on the kitchen. Will it end with a bang or a whimper?