Sandro Aguilar
Sandro AGUILAR (1974, Portugal) studied film in Lisbon. In 1998, after his graduation from the Lisbon Film School he founded the production company O Som e a Fúria. Aguilar usually makes short films but made his feature debut with Uprise (2008). His shorts have received awards at festivals such as Venice and Locarno. Mercury (2010) was in competition for the Tiger Short Award at IFFR in 2011. Besides working as a filmmaker, Aquilar is also an editor and producer.
Filmography
O cadáver esquisito (1997, short), Estou perto (1998, short), Sem movimento/Motionless (2000, short), Corpo e meio/In Between (2003, short), Remains (2002, short), A serpente/The Serpent (2005, short), Arquivo/Archive (2007, short), A zona/Uprise (2008), Voodoo (2010, short), Mercúrio/Mercury (2010, short), And They Went (2011, short), Sinais de serenidade por coisas sem sentido/Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things (2012, short), Dive: Approach and Exit (2013, short), Jewels (2013, short), False Twins (2014, short), Bunker (2015, short), Undisclosed Recipients (2015, short), Mariphasa (2017), Armour (2020, mid-length), The Detection of Faint Companions (2021, short), O Teu Peso em Ouro/ Worth your Weight in Gold (2022, short), Exotic Words Drifted (2023, short), Primeira Pessoa do Plural (2023)
Sandro Aguilar at IFFR
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Primeira pessoa do plural
An unsettling exploration of the foundations upon which a relationship is built.
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April Showers
Ghosts from the time of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution come back to life when the theatre maker Pedro, after making a discovery in his grandmo
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Alpha
Miguel Fonseca’s first film. Highly stylised, literary in tone, it’s ultimately a disarmingly intriguing and beautifully-shot android romance
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Corpo e meio
Instinctively he covers the flame in front of him. The fire slowly but surely consumes tears and fever.
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Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things
No one does darkness better. This is a confoundingly claustrophobic, sensual and mysterious film from the startlingly talented Sandro Aguilar.
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Na escama do dragão
Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony
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Redemption
Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic ‘letters’ from Portu
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Tabu
Hat tip to the eponymous F.W. Murnau classic in which Portuguese talent Miguel Gomes tells a melancholy story about ageing, lost love, missed oppor
