Rui Poças

Born in Porto (b. 1966), Rui Poças is one of the most internationally renowned Portuguese cinematographers, with a career spanning more than sixty films, including short and feature films of various genres. Nominated eight times for the Sophia Awards, he won Best Cinematography for The Last Time I Saw Macau, by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, as well as Alma Viva, by Cristèle Alves Meira, one of his most recent Portuguese films, alongside Grand Tour, by Miguel Gomes, Amadeo, by Vicente Alves do Ó, and Will-o'-the-Wisp, by João Pedro Rodrigues, with whom he is a regular collaborator. With Miguel Gomes, he also served as cinematographer on Our Beloved Month of August and Tabu.Among his international collaborations are Zama (2017), by Argentine Lucrecia Martel; Good Manners (2017), by Brazilian duo Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas; Frankie (2019), by American Ira Sachs, a film starring Isabelle Huppert, shot in Portugal and presented at the Cannes Film Festival; and The Rye Horn (2023), by Spanish director Jaione Camborda, winner of the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival.

At this LEFFEST, Rui Poças participates in a conversation following the screening of The Souffleur, one of his most recent collaborations, with Argentine director Gastón Solnicki.