Carlos Ruiz

Moving between fiction and documentary observation, Ruiz Camona has continuously experimented and expanded his artistic vocabulary. In 2009, he released the drama Roots, which won the Prix Bracara Augusta at the Braga Independent Film Festival and was also awarded Best Short Film at the Minho International Film Festival. In the years that followed, between 2011 and 2015, the director increased his presence on television, developing a series of institutional and essayistic documentaries broadcast on RTP and other platforms, including titles such as A Study of Possibilities, A New Narrative for Europe, and The Dinner That Never Happened. During this same period, he also made films about the work of contemporary artists such as Rui Chafes, Alberto Carneiro, Susana Solano, and Didier Faustino, revealing a sensitive attention to materiality, artistic gesture, and the poetics of space.

In 2011, he directed the short film Greve, later shown on RTP2 and in Cinematheque venues in cities such as Valencia, Murcia, and Santiago de Compostela. This was followed in 2016 by the production of a television documentary series titled My Thesis, comprising thirteen episodes that showcase the thoughts, affections, and concerns of young researchers in Portugal. But it is with CRU—a film shot over nearly a decade in Porto and completed in 2017—that Carlos Ruiz Camona deepened an authorial approach marked by time, listening, and prolonged presence. The documentary had its world premiere in the International Competition of the DOK Leipzig festival and continued its run at events such as Visions du Réel in Switzerland and the Avanca International Film Festival, where it received an Honorable Mention in 2018.

Over the past decades, Ruiz Camona has crafted a cinema attuned to the social and the sensitive, combining an ethic of proximity with an aesthetic that values restraint, detail, and deep listening. In 2024, he completed his second fiction feature, The Falling Sky, a poetic representation of the enigmatic nature of desire, love, and the enduring pain of living with the consequences of our actions. The film premiered in November 2024 at the Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival, where it received an Honorable Mention from the Jury, and is now preparing for its international debut in 2025, with confirmed screenings in Italy and Norway. Its theatrical release is also scheduled for the coming year, marking a new chapter in the filmography of Carlos Ruiz Camona—a filmmaker who continues to affirm the importance of cinema as a space for listening, intimacy, and aesthetic resistance.