Patrick Mendes Movies

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on...

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental...

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after...

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink...

Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by...

An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice...

After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon...

A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a...

A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom.

Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth.

In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.

A father's journey to save his son.

Mata-Ratos, a legendary Portuguese punk band, have played in football stadiums, sports halls, bars, performance venues, cultural associations,...

Essay House of Fun, is a journey to create the dramatic reading of the feature script HOUSE OF FUN, from the gender transition in the context of the...

The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.