Jorge Pelicano

Jorge Pelicano

48 (1977-03-03)
Figueira da Foz, Portugal

Jorge Eduardo Gil Pelicano (Figueira da Foz, March 3, 1977) is a Portuguese filmmaker and TV reporter.

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Pára-me de Repente o Pensamento 2015 (6.4)

A cup of coffee, a cigarette. A coin, another cup of coffee. Patients roam the halls. They walk alone. Waiting. Another smoke, a burning cigarette. Therapies that appeal to the senses. Routines that pull them back to reality. It's life repeating itself at psychiatric hospital spaces'. Lucidity and madness live together. From the outside world comes an actor in search of his character for a theatre play, diving into the inner world of schizophrenia. Patients are part of the creation of the character. Amidst the haze, the actor finds a poem by Ângelo de Lima, an alienated. The theatre character is born. Cinema documents it.
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Pare, Escute, Olhe 2009 (5.6)

December 1991. Half of the century-old Tua railway, that circulates between Bragança e Mirandela, is shut down by a political decision. Fifteen years later, the train's whistle echoes in the memory of the people from Trás-os-Montes. This decision cut the development of the country and increased disparities between the coastal and inland of Portugal, making it the most centralist country in Western Europe. Now, the trains that still wind through the idyllic valley of Tua is threatened by a dam, which would flood what is considered one of the most beautiful railway lines of Europe. The people stood, isolated, in the only district in the country without a single motorway mile.
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Ainda Há Pastores? 2006 (7.5)

The story of the last sheppards of the Star Mountain Range in Central Eastern Portugal.