Rui Poças is best known for his collaboration with Miguel Gomes in films like TABU or OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST and also GRAND TOUR last year's winner of Best Direction at Cannes Film Festival Official Competition.

SLEEPLESS CITY (trailer above) by Guillermo Galoe is his last film at the festivals circuit, premiering in competition at Semaine de la Critique at Cannes this year. THE SOUFFLEUR by Gaston Solnicki and BURY YOUR DEAD (teaser below) by Marco Dutra are also premiering right now around the world.

Poças shot THE RYE HORN by Jaione Camborda (Winner at San Sebastian FF), ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel and Ira Sachs FRANKIE, staring Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei and Jérémie Renier.

Poças is a regular collaborator of the Portuguese filmmakers Cristèle Alves Meira (ALMA VIVA) and João Pedro Rodrigues (WILL O’THE WISP, PHANTOM, TO DIE LIKE A MAN, and THE ORNITHOLOGIST) the latter being nominated for Best Film and winning Best Director in Locarno Film Festival.

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Several recently shot films are currently in post-production: BODYHACKERS by Carlos Conceição, THE GUESTS by Cristina Diaz and Stefan Butzmuehlen, WILD'S ROOM by Ma Xue, THE DRAGON BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH by Gonçalo Waddington and 13 ALFINETES by João Pedro Rodrigues, the first Portuguese movie shot for IMAX.

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