Acting
Pedro Almendra
Born August 25, 1976 · Braga, Portugal (age 50)
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Known For
The Portuguese House · 2025The Portuguese House
★ 6.72025
MovieDrama
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.
Ausente · 2025Ausente
2025
MovieDrama
Hidden from her husband and daughter, Carmen, a neglectful mother who is emotionally distant from her family, meets someone from her past in a hotel room, looking for answers that will help her heal wounds that have been open for too long.
The Sibyl · 2023The Sibyl
★ 5.72023
MovieDrama
In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
The Waning Sky · 2024The Waning Sky
2024
MovieRomance
The Waning Sky tells the story of two lovers united by a love as strong as it is forbidden, haunted by the imminent presence of their unfulfilled desires and the guilt that follows them. Their relationship is founded on a shared lie, a guilt that torments them both, and an unrelenting desire that threatens to consume them both. They married young, not knowing the depths of love or passion, but when they met, they knew they had found their soulmate. The characters Luís and Ana, played by Carla Chambel and Rúben Garcia, are united by a passion that lasts for several years, supported by furtive encounters, declarations of love, conflicts and guilt. The Waning Sky presents a poetic and lyrical narrative of the complexities of desire, love and the lingering pain of living with the consequences.
The Amazed Spectator · 2016The Amazed Spectator
★ 6.22016
MovieDocumentary
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?
Over El Cielo · 2015Over El Cielo
2015
MovieDrama
Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.
Snu · 2019Snu
★ 6.72019
MovieDrama
The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.
We Are on Air · 2024We Are on Air
★ 1.02024
MovieDrama
Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be taking. She misses her dead husband, who manifests himself in the body of a living friend, and gets involved in her daily activities. Through these characters, Diogo Costa Amarante constructs a fascinating portrait of lives lived while desires remain unrealised.
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