Fado Blues

Luís Galvão Teles

crime, comedy / 100’ / 2004

Stuck in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a femme fatale, gets them away from their path. And the three of them find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth it?


In co-production with SamsaFilm (Luxembourg), Videofilmes (Brazil).
  • Festival Fantasporto (PT)

    Mostra de Cinema De São Paulo (BR)

    Festival Do Rio De Janeiro (BR)

    Caminhos Do Cinema Português XI (PT)

    Filmfest Hamburg (GE)

    8th Shanghai Internatinal Film Festival (CN)

    11th Kolkata Internatinal Film Festival (IN)

    XXII International Film Festival (UR)

    Festival de Cine de Bagotá (COL)

    Cinequest Film Festival (US)

    World Film Festival Of Bangkok (TH)

    Raindance Film Festival (UK)

    Quinzena De Cinema Português em Macau

    Imagens Lusófonas em Maputo (MZ)

    Fest. de Cinema da U.E. (TH)

    Quinzaine du Cinéma Portugais (FR)

    Imagens Lusófonas - Cabo Verde e Guiné-Bissau

    Ágora - Filmoteca Regional da Extremadura (ES)

    Ciclo Escuela de Idiomas em Mérida

    Cabourg Film Festival (FR)

    Imagens Lusófonas (ST)

    VII Mostra Portuguesa (ES)

    7º Festival De Cinema Português, Kiev (UA)

    Quinzena de Portugal em Souteville (FR)

    Festival de Cinema Europeu em Kinnhasa

    Festival de Cinema de Berlim (DE)

    Cineport

    Film Festival in Kazimierz (PL)

    Sessão De Abertura Imagens Lusófonas

    Festroia (PT)

    Festival AFI European Union Film Showcase (US)

    II Ciclo de Cinema Português

    Mostra Cinema Luso-Brasileiro (CA)

    Festa do Cinema Luso-Brasileiro, Maputo (MZ)

    Cinema Contemporâneo Português (BR)

    Festival de Cinema União Europeia (CN)

    Festival Cineport em Cataguases

    10º Festival do Filme Europeu em Bucareste

    Festival de Cinema Europeu em Trinidade e Tobago (VZ)

    Mostra de Cinema em Madrid, Saragosa e Valencia

    Latin American Film Festival (US)

PRODUCTION CREDITS

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PRODUCTION CREDITS 〰️

DIRECTION

Clara Vinhais

Rosário Moreira

Pia Dumont

Nuno Malo

WITH

Ângelo Torres, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, João Lagarto,
António Melo, Marcantonio Del Carlo, Deborah Secco

SCRIPT

PHOTOGRAPHY

EDITING

MUSIC

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Luís Galvão Teles, Gonçalo Galvão Teles

Suzanne Nagle, Gonçalo Galvão Teles

COSTUME DESIGN

PRODUCTION

Luís Galvão Teles

Jako Raybaut

Carlos Alberto Lopes

SOUND

François Gonot, Chico Carneiro

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

Cândida Vieira

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Pia Dumont, Elsa Ferreira

SOUND EDITING

Branko Neskov

SOUND MIXING

Luís Galvão Teles

Luís Galvão Teles has dedicated 50 years of his life to cinema, having played various roles: director, screenwriter, producer and distributor. As a director, he has made more than 15 films.

In the year of the revolution, he was one of the founding partners of CINEQUANON, a cooperative from which emerged his film A Confederação - O Povo É Que Faz a História (1978).

In 1997, he founded FADO FILMES, one of the most prominent producing companies in the last 25 years.

In 2022, Luís Galvão Teles is finishing the television series Tales From The Mountain, based on Miguel Torga's short stories, preparing the fiction film Grape Harvest and a documentary on the filmmaker Ayres d'Aguiar.