Filipa César

Director, Screenplay, Production design, Editing, Producer
Porto, Portugal

Biography

Born in Porto, Portugal in 1975. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon. In 2008, she completed an MA in art in context at Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2011, she has been researching the origins of the cinema of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea-Bissau as a laboratory of decolonising epistemologies. She premiered her first feature-length film "Spell Reel" at the Forum in 2017, while "Quantum Creole" was exhibited at Forum Expanded in 2020. She lives and works in Berlin.

Source: 74. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Filmography

2023/2024
  • Director
  • Editing
  • Producer
2016/2017
  • Director
  • Editing
  • Producer
2015
  • Director
  • Screenplay
  • Production design
  • Editing
  • Producer