Maria Isabel de Oliveira

Movies

Visit, or Memories and Confessions
Self
A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
101
An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Sílvia (2007)
A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
Porto of My Childhood
Music
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Oliveira, l'architecte
Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his first technical experiences…