Ivo M. Ferreira
Ivo M. FERREIRA (1975, Portugal) has been acting in theatre, cinema and television productions since the age of five. At a young age, he enrolled in the London International Film School and the University of Budapest. He has worked as a director since 1997. Ferreira works with simplicity, commitment and freedom, making personal yet universal films. His film Letters from War (2016) was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmography
O homem da bicicleta – Diáro de Macau/The Bicycle Man – Diary of Macau (1997, short doc), O que foi?/What Is It? (1998, short doc), Angola em cena (2002, doc), Contadores do príncipe (2002, doc), Em volta/Around (2002), À procura de Sabino (2003, doc), Salto em barreira (2004, short), Go with the Wind (2009), Águas mil/April Showers (2009), O estrangeiro/The Foreigner (2010, short, co-dir), Na escama do dragão/On the Dragon’s Flake (2013, short), Cartas da Guerra (2016), Hotel Império (2018), Equinócio (2018), Projecto Global (2025).
Ivo M. Ferreira at IFFR
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Projecto Global
Ivo M. Ferreira | 140' | Portugal | World premiere
A political thriller set in the turbulent years after the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon. -
April Showers
Ivo M. Ferreira | 90' | Portugal | World premiere
Ghosts from the time of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution come back to life when the theatre maker Pedro, after making a discovery in his grandmothe -
Na escama do dragão
Ivo M. Ferreira | 23' | Macau | World premiere
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 in China -
Moamba Chinesa
Henrique Narciso ‘Dito’ | 20' | Angola | World premiere
He missed his flight twice, but still made it to the port of Guangzhou (Canton). Or chocolate city as the Chinese call it, because of… -
O estrangeiro
Ivo M. Ferreira | 18' | Portugal | None
Searching for what we bring with us and what we leave behind, The Foreigner is a personal and melancholic story of detection set in Macau.