Margarida Gil

Directing

Margarida Gil

Born September 7, 1950 · Covilhã, Portugal (age 76)

Born in Covilhã, Portugal in 1950, she studied German philology in Lisbon. As a filmmaker, she can look back on a career spanning over 30 years with films including Relação Fiel e Verdadeira, which screened at Venice, and Rosa Negra, which was presented at Locarno. She was married to the director João César Monteiro and worked closely with him as an actor, screenwriter and assistant director. In 2…

Known For

Cavaleiro VentoCavaleiro Vento · 2022
Cavaleiro Vento
2022
Movie
SeaSea · 2018
Sea
★ 5.72018
MovieDrama
Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.
PassionPassion · 2012
Passion
★ 5.82012
MovieDrama
A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.
The Love of the Three PomegranatesThe Love of the Three Pomegranates · 1979
The Love of the Three Pomegranates
★ 5.61979
MovieDrama
In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual connotation of the pomegranate – to tell a tale of love, envy, treason and mistaken/double identities.
PathsPaths · 1978
Paths
★ 7.41978
MovieDramaFantasy
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Flores AmargasFlores Amargas · 1988
Flores Amargas
★ 10.01988
MovieDrama
A festive day in the Timorense community stranded in the Jamor Valley. A partisan who came from Timor and his story. A look at an abandoned people.
Graça Morais – As EscolhidasGraça Morais – As Escolhidas · 1998
Graça Morais – As Escolhidas
★ 8.01998
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Guardian AngelGuardian Angel · 1999
Guardian Angel
★ 8.01999
MovieDrama
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.

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