Duarte Coimbra

Duarte Coimbra

Birth : , Lisbon, Portugal

History

Duarte Coimbra was born in 1996, in Lisbon, and has a degree in Cinema Directing at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC). While at school he worked as a production assistant for the film O Meu Pijama (2017) by Maria Inês Gonçalves - selected for Indie Lisboa 17' (Brand New) -, was the second assistant director in the film A Barriga de Mariana (2018) and also directed music videos for the musicians. Amor, Avenidas Novas, is his first film as director.

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Duarte Coimbra

Movies

Love, New Avenues
Screenplay
Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress.
Love, New Avenues
Director
Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress.
Beijinhos Infinitos
Director
Beijinhos Infinitos / The XOXOs goes through many forms of love. In 2022, young adults search for a place in the city and in cinema. In 2005, adventurous teenagers become entangled in an enchanted medieval-era plot that dares to ask: «What if João César Monteiro directed a teen soap opera?