Luís Galvão Teles

Director

December 4, 1945 (80 years)

Lisbon, Portugal

Biography

Born on December 4, 1945, Luís Galvão Teles studied Law in Lisbon (1967) and Cinema in Paris (1968/70). Throughout his 50-year career in cinema, Luís Galvão Teles has held various positions as director, screenwriter, producer and distributor. He was an active participant in various film movements in Portugal before and after the revolution of April 25, 1974. That same year, he became one of the founding partners of CINEQUANON, a film cooperative that played a key role during the revolution. I…

Filmography

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Tales from the Mountain

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.

9.0

A Noiva

A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..

5.5

Dot.com

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.

6.5

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

9.0

Retrato de Família

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.

5.2

Women

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

5.1

Tudo Isto é Fado

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

8.0

Death on the Tagus

A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile," Peter Ustinov and Jane Birkin, who are interviewed by the author.

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Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

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Life Is Beautiful

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.

4.2

Ice

The lives of two women intersect.

7.4

The Guns and the People

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.

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Glamour

Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.

6.2

A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, Lisbon is inhabited by a repressed and militarized population. Maria and António stand out in this city and surrender themselves to a submersive love. 1978

7.5

Liberdade para José Diogo

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver, kills his boss, Columbano Líbano Monteiro, after being dismissed from his job, when he claimed his right to work. He is imprisoned in Beja, Alentejo, and he is freed until prossecution. The courts are reluctant to judge him, because of the social unrest and the political aid Diogo is receiving from trade unions and political parties. A crowd will disrupt the court, in Tomar, and conduct a popular judgement in the hall of the tribunal, deciding to free Diogo, and condemning the boss, posthumously, for dismissing his employee and attacking him. The case became a law case study since then.

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Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

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Cooperativa Agrícola da Torre-Bela

A documentary that describes the life and problems of one of Portugal's most celebrated agricultural cooperatives in the second year of the Carnation Revolution.

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