Paulo Rocha (film director)

Paulo Soares da Rocha (22 December 1935 – 29 December 2012) was a Portuguese film director. Among his best-known films are A Ilha dos Amores and O Rio do Ouro. A Ilha dos Amores was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, O Desejado was entered into the main competition at the 44th edition of the Venice Film Festival, and O Rio do Ouro was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Festival.

Filmography as director

 * Os Verdes Anos (1963)
 * Mudar de Vida (1966)
 * Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)
 * A Pousada das Chagas (1972)
 * A Ilha dos Amores (1982)
 * O Desejado (1988)
 * "Cinéma, de Notre Temps": Oliveira - L'Architecte (1993)
 * Portugaru San - O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima (1993)
 * Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker (1995)
 * Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano (1998)
 * O Rio do Ouro (1998)
 * A Raiz do Coração (2000)
 * As Sereias (2001)
 * Vanitas (2004)
 * Se Eu Fosse Ladrão, Roubava (2011)

Bibliographic references

 * O Cais do Olhar by José de Matos-Cruz, Portuguese Cinematheque, 1999