Jorge Quintela Movies

One day, an old water pipe caused a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic mushrooms of the order Polypo- rales would grow. Sitting on the toilet, the lady of this house looks up and observes that magical and mys- terious fungus, which is not an animal, nor a plant. The mushroom is the future, she...

Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.

A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza.

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and others heard.

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana. Suffering from a heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike.

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...

A man returns to his hometown many years after a forced departure. He confronts his memories from childhood and from the past, he looks for the old faces and places, but seems that they’re not there anymore. The distance grows even more.

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary.

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

The short documentary explores the transformation over the decades of the Stop Shopping Center in Bonfim, Porto, framing its history within the materialist critique proposed by Walter Benjamin in his Book of Passages.

"Wood was uninterruptedly burning in the home, of that centrifugal place whose actors still offered new worlds to the world born from the sweat of their brows and the clandestine sap of their dreams." Regina Guimarães

He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she’s trapped...

In a mental institution a man flies forever. Shot in the psychiatric hospital "Conde Ferreira" in Porto.

Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they know it.

Two childhood friends grew up and face strange feelings now. One of them tries to explore that feelings by words and their relationship becomes uncomfortable. When the words stay in silence they discover what they are looking for.

An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de Carvalho, otherwise known as The Wolf of Madragoa.

A pocket movie on a train between two stations in Berlin.

Generational conflict within people who live for the countryside, in the countryside. The director and her grandmother.