O Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira e Eu 2016

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho

Cast:

João Botelho
Narrator (voice) 

Mariana Dias
Rapariga das Luvas Brancas 

António Durães
Pai 

Ângela Marques
Mãe 

Maria João Pinho
Irmã 

Leonor Silveira
Dona do Bordel