João Grosso

João Grosso

Nacimiento : 1958-10-01, Lisbon, Portugal

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João Grosso

Películas

Second Hand
Editor
Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
Demain?
Médecin
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Kinotel
Homem
We don`t know much about the future world where people need to visit 'Kinotels'. But we know that going to the cinema has radically changed. It has become a computer directed kind of intimate ritual during which people enter another reality and switch personality. This is the short story of aman and a woman who visit a Kinotel.
Land of Storms
Jorge
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.
Minus 9
This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.
Tierra extranjera
Carlos
Brasil, marzo de 1990. El plan económico del gobierno brasileño de Collor empuja al país al caos. La vida de Paco, un joven estudiante paulista, se desmorona con la muerte de su madre y acaba con su sueño de ser actor. Paco decide abandonar su país y marcharse a España, la tierra de su madre, aceptando llevar antes a Lisboa un objeto de contrabando. Allí conoce a Álex, el amor y el peligro de morir...
A Fachada
Short film.
Pandora
Jorge
It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...
The Jew
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Sostiene Pereira
Police chief
En la Lisboa de 1938, cuando los totalitarismos triunfan en Europa, un periodista que ha trabajado siempre en la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un periódico. Su sentido fúnebre de la cultura va a chocar con el espíritu vital de su joven colaborador, con quien mantendrá una estrecha relación. Se desencadenará una crisis personal, que cambiará profundamente la vida del maduro periodista.
A Força do Atrito
Vítor
Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.
Light Traps
Macedo
Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he finds his lover Alice. "They" find him and he has to escape with the help of Matilde. A fascinating woman who will now give him shelter and pretends to help him find Alice. Time is running out for Mário and Alice.
Requiem for a Daffodil
Miguel
Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.