Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes, born in North Carolina, United States, in 1984. His films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique - Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennial, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Here in Lisbon
as (segment "Freud and Friends")Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are...
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Palaces of Pity
as uncreditedHaunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their...
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L for Leisure
as uncreditedA dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite...
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A History of Mutual Respect
as uncreditedWhen two boys leave for a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds...
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Taprobana
as Portuguese AuthorityIn this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles...
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A Brief History of Princess X
as Himself (voice)A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is...
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Freud und Friends
as uncreditedA headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
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A Portuguese Film
as HimselfA documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
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Coup de Grâce
as VizinhoA man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following...
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Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies
as uncreditedIn a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of...
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Fratelli
as uncreditedGabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the...
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Olympia I & II
as Duncan; OlympiaThis radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the...
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