Gabriel Abrantes
Birthday: 1984-01-01
Place of Birth: North Carolina, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
A History of Mutual Respect
When two boys leave for a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will p...
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L for Leisure
A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite acti...
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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...
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Olympia I & II
This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first pa...
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Freud und Friends
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious....
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Taprobana
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creati...
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Coup de Grâce
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day ...
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A Brief History of Princess X
A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is in fa...
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Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies
In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of wha...
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A Portuguese Film
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors....
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Palaces of Pity
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their aili...
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Fratelli
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
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