Edgar Pêra Movies

A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of...

Braga’s Estádio Municipal was erected for the EURO 2004 championships. So can it be a surprise that the first association this...

Edgar Pêra interviews writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman at BD Forum Lisbon in 2003. A conversation about Gaiman’s work, which...

Tommi Musturi is one of today’s most complex comic book authors. Much like a chameleon, this artist employs different illustration styles to...

It is with images of Domingos de Oliveira Santos, a surgeon turned filmmaker, that Edgar Pêra composes a mosaic that goes beyond home videos,...

A movie by Edgar Pêra.

Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.

In 1988, Lisbon’s Chiado was ravaged by a fire; now, some of the highest real estate property prices in Portugal are paid for a piece of this...

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like...

João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his...

"Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How...

In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from...

A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from Portugal

Since the Nazis infamously used Manchester Liberalism-apologist Heinrich Beta’s dictum Labour Liberates at the gates of several concentration...

On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city. 345 years later (D.T. =...

José Carlos Fernandes is one of the most original Portuguese comic book authors. He has published more than 30 books, particularly the...

A series of deeply personal short films centered around the debut album of the musical duo Pornographie Exclusive (Severine Cayron and Jerome...

Death is the great equalizer, if only due to the rites celebrated by the living. And thus, after their earthly existences ended, Ioannes Paulus PP....

A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon...