Abi Feijó Movies

From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.

In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the...

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.

It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.

A journey through the fears and ghosts of Portuguese popular culture

Portugal feels himself a little country in the tail of Europe. Has a wandering heart, an adventurous spirit, an embittered soul and an obedient body.

The opening credits of the festival "Odyssey mas imagens" in Porto in 2001. (25 Sec. )

Quick cutting provides the speed in this tribute to two wheeled transport.

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?

A rescued poem, written by the neorealist Álvaro Feijó in 1940, brings it back to the days that imitate it. Slowly settling in the hearts of men and women who become hostage to her grace, there she is revealing all her nature, at the same time as she utters his name unmercifully.

Commission by Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (Portugal) for the exhibit Faiança Portuguesa to the studio Filmógrafo.

An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.

Nights are hidden days beyond our minds. But some remain like flying shadows reshaping the naive images of our lives. Faces hurt with emptiness, characters petrified in silence, lands inked with blood....And we become sleepy, carelessly dying, until morning happens.

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

Christmas Song. (40 Seg. )

There are many in-betweens in my film. The most relevant that are in the source material are essential to the film, they are their own Time and Space generators, they are what exists between each of the imagens.

X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.