Pedro Hestnes
Acting
Biography
Pedro Hestnes Ferreira (Lisbon, 1962 — Lisbon, 20 June 2011) was a Portuguese actor. Collaborations with Pedro Costa, Paulo Rocha or Manuel Mozos are standouts in his prolific career.
Born: January 1, 1962
Known For
Second Hand
Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Cinerama
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Love Torn in a Dream
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Agosto
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Malvadez
Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers
Blood
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Casa de Lava
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Xavier
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Hard Times
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Filmography
as Jorge
as Inácio
as Joaquim
as Marc
as Emílio
as Angstel
as Álvaro
as Martin
as Edite's Son
as O Pai
as António
as Xavier
as Matias
as Luís
as Vicente
as Bastos
as Alberto
as (voice)
as António, the Kleptomaniac
as (voice)