Ângela Ramos is a Portuguese actress, Film Director and Editor from Porto, Portugal.
She studied film direction at Lisbon's Film & Theatre School and has an MA in Film Directing and another in Film Editing from the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia.
In acting, she is known for Bela Mandil (2019), directed by Helena Estrela.
Ângela directed Camarim (2016), Não Há Cigarras no Inverno (2017), and CAPUT (2020).
Her films are known for having a solid feminist motif that touches on topics like gender, psychological abuse, and mental health.
In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.