The best Fernando Lopes’s documentary movies

Fernando Lopes

Fernando Lopes

28/12/1936- 02/05/2012
Today we present the best Fernando Lopes’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Fernando Lopes’s movies.

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.

Acts of Cinema

Acts of Cinema
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.

Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente

Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
6.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/03/2008
  • Character: Himself
Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo".

No Tempo do Cinema

No Tempo do Cinema
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/05/2006
  • Character: Himself
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work

Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 17/08/2008
  • Character: Himself
Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.

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