Rui Xavier

Filmes

O Teu Peso Em Ouro
Director of Photography
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness.
Interdependence Film 2019
Director of Photography
Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.
O Fim do Mundo
Director of Photography
Spira comes home from a juvenile detention center and reconnects with his loved ones in Reboleira (Lisbon), a slum on the verge of being destroyed. Kikas makes it clear that he’s not welcome.
Campo
Director of Photography
"Campo" é apresentado como um filme-ensaio, rodado "na maior base militar da Europa, onde os militares treinam, com todo o tipo de armas, missões que irão desenvolver em lugares distantes".
Mariphasa
Director of Photography
Paulo trabalha como segurança noturno num desactivado complexo industrial. Perdeu a filha em circunstâncias dramáticas e nenhum arrependimento lhe serviria de consolo. Dorme em casa de Luísa e aí testemunha as repetidas transgressões de um vizinho instável. Tudo ameaça estalar.
Coup de Grâce
Director of Photography
Leonor volta de viagem num dia em que o seu pai (Francisco) já não a esperava. No espaço de 24 horas viverão uma realidade alucinada, conduzida, em crescendo, pela inquietação de Francisco num registo de aparente normalidade.
Bunker
Director of Photography
A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.
Aqui, em Lisboa: Episódios da Vida da Cidade
Director of Photography
Em 2013, para celebrar o seu décimo aniversário, o IndieLisboa tinha convidado quatro realizadores a filmarem em Lisboa: Dominga Sotomayor e Marie Losier (vencedoras da Competição Internacional com “De Jueves a Domingo”, em 2012, e “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye”, em 2011, respectivamente), e Denis Côté e Gabriel Abrantes, duas presenças recorrentes do festival. “Aqui, em Lisboa” é o surpreendente resultado – quatro autores com quatro visões diferentes da cidade de Lisboa, passando pelos registos da ficção, do documentário, da comédia ou do fantástico. Mas com o traço comum que espelha o festival que os acolhe: a independência.
Undisclosed Recipients
Director of Photography
Before and after a kiss
Dive: Approach And Exit
Director of Photography
Before the assault, feel the weight of the body.
A Cidade e o Sol
Director of Photography
A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it becomes fierce, and like death, she cannot look it in the eye - only to the shadows around her
Luz da Manhã
Director of Photography
On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.
Voodoo
Cinematography
All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?
Um Dia Frio
Cinematography
A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it.
Superfície
Director
No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected world. Does our world remain the same when we come back on shore?