Nuno Melo

In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.

Chico vive as suas tardes num ócio infinito, repleto de drogas e desamores imersos nas vibrações da música. Lisboa aparece como pano de fundo de uma juventude à deriva, ao ritmo do descarrilamento do protagonista.

New film directed by Edgar Pêra.

Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this family.

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?

João é um célebre escritor a atravessar uma enorme crise de criatividade. Também a sua vida afectiva vive momentos de dúvida. Um acontecimento muito invulgar fez com que João acordasse um dia sem saber se a pessoa que tem a seu lado na cama é aquela com quem quer continuar a partilhar a vida. João decide afastar-se e, livre de compromissos, assume-se como um verdadeiro solteiro folião. Quem vai aproveitar este desvio é Isabel, a escritora rival de João. Isabel só precisava dum deslize para, com a sua falta de escrúpulos, pisar João e ficar em vantagem. Conseguirá João recuperar a inspiração para terminar o seu livro? E se a única forma de o acabar for com a ajuda da sua família e do amor que deixou em standby?

When an actor assists to the premiere of the experimental B-movie he stars in, film blends with real life, turning it into an actual thriller.

A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.

Portugal, 2013, election day. The 'Troika' and the IMF have ruined the country. A patriot man will make a difference. Even if against...everyone.

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.

Esta é a história de um homem que após ter vivido longe do seu país durante mais de uma década, volta à sua aldeia para vingar a morte do irmão. Inspirado nos escritos de Henry David Thoreau, traduz Desobediência Civil para Português. Num país onde a corrupção e a extorsão são encaradas como normalidade, aqueles que materializam a representação do Estado prendem e matam impunemente. Alberto tenta combater esta tirania do estado e salvar o que resta da sua família. Mas este é um país onde nada muda.

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.

A história de um vampiro marialva que aterrorizava os habitantes duma região montanhosa. O Barão é um camaleão emocional. Ora se apresenta dócil, ou irascível, um homem-javali, “uma pura besta”. Vive um amor aprisionado, dentro e fora de si. Um amor inatingível. Um ideal corrompido. Idalina, criada aristocrata paira pelo castelo...

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.

Sandro Aguilar's haunting, formally ambitious debut immerses the viewer in a series of uncannily potent scenes.

Próximo de um neo-realismo onírico, Rio Turvo parte do conto homónimo de Branquinho da Fonseca, onde se acompanha a história de um amor impossível entre um topógrafo anónimo, recém-chegado ao terreno pantanoso onde deverá construir-se um aeroporto – provavelmente, passe o anacronismo ficcional, sublinhando-se o sincronismo histórico, o tão discutido aeroporto da Ota –, e a bela flor do pântano. As intervenções musicais dos operários de construção (os fados de Ricardo Ribeiro e de Manuel João Vieira, as guitarras dos Dead Combo e de José Pracana, a bossa nova do JP Simões e a voz de Teresa Salgueiro) pontuam, socraticamente, esta história de amor e acompanham narrativas paralelas de conspiração e suspeita. O pano de fundo são os medos e uma indiferença trespassante do presente, em que o protagonista tem de decidir se é homem ou macaco, cínico ou cobarde, avançando ao ritmo de um progressivo desprendimento da realidade até um final abrupto, irónico e amargo.

Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie.

Nesta adaptação aos tempos modernos da emblemática obra de Eça de Queirós, o realizador trás até nós uma história inspirada no perfume de um romance proibido, na luta entre o bem e o mal, de valores, honra e a controvérsia da dignidade. Reunindo um elenco de grandes atores onde pontuam os já consagrados Ruy de Carvalho, Nicolau Breyner e Rogério Samora entre outros, os estreantes na sétima arte, Soraia Chaves e Jorge Corrula dão corpo aos protagonistas desta trama. Um padre jovem num bairro suburbano de Lisboa. Uma jovem sensual e sedutora. Amaro faz de tudo para resistir à tentação, mas Amélia não desiste. Será que um homem de Deus consegue vencer o desejo carnal?

Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal

A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a mysterious female lead singer of a now long gone band. He sets himself to start another pirate-radio, now unlegalized, trying to find her.

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is used as setting to the plot.

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

Após horas de submersão esperam a luz da manhã e a baixa da maré para poderem caminhar entre os bancos de ostras e chegarem a uma das duas ilhas aluviais, em direcção à margem. Mas a longa espera e a temperatura gelada da água deixou-os com os corpos debilitados e os pensamentos turvos. Os caminhos escolhidos para chegarem à margem reservam perigos e sacrifícios inesperados. A salvação não parece óbvia. Inspirado num caso verídico.

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and constantly threatens them to tell Armando everything. Laura and Armando have a daughter - Sónia - whose greatest defect is greediness and the highest quality to cover up her mother's romance with her uncle. The fear of the two lovers increases and events precipitate when they receive the news that Armando is about to go on parole ...

Tudo começa quando uma família normal e friorenta é bafejada pela sorte. Jesus, assim se chama o filho do casal, encontra um tesouro escondido e proibido: a riqueza da Terra. No mesmo dia dois padres decidem fechar as portas da sua igreja por falta de crentes e fazem um leilão de imagens dos seus queridos santos. E partem à aventura.

On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers. Eventually, it's golden frame attracts the attention of a shoplifter, who is almost caught by security because of that feature. After escaping without paying from two other stores, the thief will come face to face with a cop - also wearing a long coat similar to the thief's - and the clock will blurt up again - in the wrong pocket.

Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Um manicômio. Os doentes dessa instituição acham que são Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eva, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, um Filósofo, um Profeta, um Fariseu, Santa Teresa d'Avila, e estão sempre recitando a Divina Comédia.

A trama passa-se na pensão Estrelinha em torno da morte de Neves, o dono odiado por todas as restantes personagens, cada uma com o seu motivo para o querer ver pelas costas.

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.

Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet.