Regina Guimarães
Biography
Regina Guimarães was born in Porto and is a poet, filmmaker, playwright and lyricist. Together with her partner Serge Abramovici (Saguenail), with whom she has lived since 1975, she founded the publishing house Hélastre. She was a university lecturer at FLUP, ESMAE and ESAD. Her work is developed simultaneously or alternately in various artistic areas that often dialog with each other. She is the author of plays and children's songs, a writer of scripts for films, a lyricist and a video director.
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Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Maria and MatÃas feel life is slipping through their fingers, and turn to birds, real and imagined, in a search for meaning and connection.
Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's vacillations. Trying to communicate, to commune with the invisible, they cry out, sing out, give out messages, each in their own way, in their own state of solitude. These are like multiple echoes that resemble waves in the water or stars in the sky. " Behind these images and sounds that have been stifled by today's society, Lehman hunts for noises, cries, songs, messages that go astray. He says that if we look at the invisible we may hear the words. He invites us to look beyond the appearances of social life and to vibrate in tune with life's polyphony that is all around us."
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Rosa
Thirty-something VÃtor 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, VÃtor 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.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
On a farm in rural Brazil in the 18th century, a new overseer arrives. He falls in love with one of the enslaved women, Mestiça, beloved by all the men. When a pair of silver earrings disappears from the farm and the overseer orders the leader of the enslaved women arrested, Mestiça decides to take revenge.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Self
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key to decipher some of the unknown symbols and allusions contained in his films.