Paulo Carneiro

Directing

Born in Lisbon, 1990 and raised in Pontinha (suburbs). Graduated in Sound and Image from ESAD.CR and master from the National Film School (ESTC) and HEAD – Genève. In 2018 directs his first film BOSTOFRIO, OÙ LE CIEL REJOINT LA TERRE, multi-awarded and shown in more than 40 international film festivals around the world. In 2019 it was acclaimed by the critic's as “top 10 films of the year” for Jornal Público. BOSTOFRIO reached more than a million spectators globally (festivals, TVs, cinemas, streaming, etc). PÉRIPHÉRIQUE NORD premieres at Visions du Réel ’22. SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN premieres at Directors’ Fortnight.

Popular Movies/Shows

Ashes and Embers

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way one discipline is a vampire for the other, but rather as if they were the different faces of the same coin, drawn to coexist and repel each other. As if every film belonged to a lonely species, Ashes and Embers shows a unique arrogance as it trembles, s...

Madness

Lucy, regarded as crazy, has a son.

Death of a Mountain

From a human point of view, a mountain is a barrier and a place of passage. Mountains have always been natural frontiers between territories. Nuno Escudeiro collected stories in Briançon, in the French High Alps, and in the Susa Valley, in the western part of Piedmont, and to these he added home movies from the Superottimisti Archivo di Film di Famiglia.

Savanna and the Mountain

Production Director

The community of Covas do Barroso, in northern Portugal, discovers that the British company Savannah Resources plans to build the largest open-pit lithium mine in Europe just few meters from their homes. Confronted by this imminent threat, the People decide to organize themselves and expel the company from their lands.

Water to Tabato

In mid-summer 2011, Paulo Carneiro and set out as assistant director for a film crew working on a project on the west African coast. There he unexpectedly ended up shooting his own film, a documentary report about a sinking ship near the coast of Guinea-Bissau on which he was a passenger. The digital camera records the growing panic on the ship after it has gotten stuck in the ocean in an oppressi...

On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands

Steeped in the isolation of suburban Tasmania, Imogen and Audrey reflect on their lives, families and dreams between puffs on bongs, vapes and cigs. Dark clouds approach in the conversation and landscape as local wildlife looks on indifferently. Beyond the drugs and arcades, what possible routes of escape remain?

Top Rated Movies/Shows

Bostofrio

In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.

Movies (Production)

Savanna and the Mountain

Production Director

On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands

Death of a Mountain

Périphérique Nord

Ashes and Embers

Water to Tabato

My Land My Strength

Fractais Tropicais

Movies (Acting)

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring