Carlos Conceição

Directing

Biography

Carlos Conceição was born on August 5, 1979 in Angola as Carlos Miguel V. Conceição. He is a director and writer, known for Goodnight, Cinderella (2014), Serpentarius (2019) and Hell, or Pool Keeping (2011).

Born: August 5, 1979

Place of Birth: Angola

Known For

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The House of the Spirits

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

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Morning of Saint Anthony's Day

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.

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Small Town

When six-year-old Frederico finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating, he is unable to sleep that night. The next day, his mother asks the teacher once again: Must children always be told the truth? Always?

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Here in Lisbon

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

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Tommy Guns

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.