Rui Simões is a Portuguese film director and producer born in Lisbon on 20th of March 1944. He dedicates himself to political cinema (documentary) and theater and ballet filming. He left Portugal in 1966 for political reasons (to avoid participating in colonial war). Simões lived in Paris and Brussels where he attended the course of Film and Television Directing in Institut des Arts de Diffusion. He came back to Portugal after 25th of April and since then works as a film director, producer and cinema professor. He is responsible for production company Real Ficção. By now he directed the following films: Deus, Pátria, Autoridade (God, Homeland, Authority, 1976), Bom Povo Português (Good Portuguese Peoples, 1980), Ensaio Sobre o Teatro (Essay About the Theater, 2006), Ruas da Amargura (Streets of Bitterness, 2009) ...

A Costa dos Murmúrios (2004, feature film, Margarida Cardoso, Portugal, prod.Maria Jõao Mayer) sinopsis, data sheet  trailer