Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

The line between dream and reality blurs when a man starts having recurring nightmares of an entity in black with a long chain hunting him down.

A chair enters a downward spiral of emotional crisis.

A couple's relationship in the pandemic during lockdown becomes fragile and they feel less and less love for each other. Until Alberto begins to believe in himself, in love, in work, and in life in general again.

Motus: a body in motion. A stop-motion animation where conception, degradation and regeneration cohabit in a unique way. A creation on a metal sheet using ethanol as the raw material.

There are around 280 million people in the world with depression - and one depressed teddy bear. Life can be hard to cope with, even for humans. But for Erinbear, ordinary chores seem impossible.

The film Faces, 1976, is a kind of triptych. Two heads of hair, one blonde and one brunette, rub against each other at the bottom of the screen. This is followed by a close-up shot of two women kissing. The camera focuses on their mouths and tongues — licking, sucking and moving between and around each other. Eventually, while beautifully filmed, it becomes almost boring to watch. The final section depicts the two women seated, naked but with heavily fabricated faces, leaning their heads on the other's shoulders—a tender epilogue to the intensity of their performance.

On June 10, 1995, to celebrate the Day of the Race and Sporting’s victory in the Portuguese football cup, a group of Portuguese ethno-nationalists went to the streets of Bairro Alto (Lisbon) to beat up Black people. The official outcome was 11 victims, one of which died.

It's Saturday in the woods: strange noises draw the girl's attention. It's the Devil.

Julio finds a place at Fred's house. The roommate relationship between the two triggers an unstoppable new feeling for Julio. Will it become his prison or will it set him free?

A man eats breakfast during the COVID-19 pandemic.

When memory fades slowly, people renounce their lives to devote themselves to those with an incurable disease. Amisdt emotions, difficulties and doubts, being cared for is everyone's right.

A dive into the heart of Timkat, a fascinating purification ritual in which moments of joy, trance and religious devotion reveal a certain pride in national identity.

A compilation of missed footage from Cherry's interview, which was recently found

We are surrounded by all kinds of sounds, but how far are we conscious about them? The director and investigator Raquel Castro has been working with the concept of sound landscape. And in particular the way sounds, silences, noises, frequencies and all spectral densities - infra or ultrasounds - can shape each place and all of us. This is also a film essay about citizenship, ecology, and the responsibility we have for the sounds we produce.

A remote audiovisual scenic greeting creation from the transcribed texts of a documentary.

Zé Pedro, the legendary guitar player of Xutos e Pontapés, is the greatest name in Portuguese rock ‘n’ roll. He was its main driving force, not only as the founding guitar player of the greatest Portuguese band ever, but also by promoting the genre as a music critic, radio broadcaster and owner of Johnny Guitar, a mythic club and concert hall in Lisbon where so many bands took their first steps.

Nazareth is Corpo’s homage to Brazil’s most erudite song writer, Ernesto Naza­reth (1863-1934). The 1993 ballet brought together onto stage the impishly sensual Brazilian ballroom dance and Corpo’s trademark sophistication. Composer José Miguel Wisnik wrote the soundtrack based on the works of Nazareth, the inventor of the “Brazilian tango.” He explored the concept of melodic mirroring to operate retrograde computer-generated movements that are assembled into crystalline surprising musical constructions, absolutely original contemporary recreations of Nazareth’s music. These pieces are commentaries, quotes, and variations on Nazareth’s music that point to a host of new exciting directions. Grupo Corpo’s remarkable team of creators worked hard to blend the erudite and the popular in this kinetic/visual rendering of Ernesto Naza­reth’s genius.

Miguel, a young writer studying cinema, releases his first best-seller at the age of 21. Maria, Psychology student, raised in a wealthy family. She is struggling for fame; Miguel is a humble human being. Their love story is compromised by their different goals in life. Miguel gives up on everything, and disappears for three years looking for the real meaning of life.

Rio Funk is a project about kids from favelas in Rio how to get hope and learn how to escape from their indistinct fate to be drug dealers in the future.

An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.

Documentary about music of Porto, featuring a Capicua interview.

Three years after their last meeting, Eva, Nina and João are at a beach house, where they have a few hours to be together.

A ballerina woman, an old woman who spends her days looking out the window, and a saleswoman in fallen clothes from the clotheslines. All are joined by a thread. All three lead the actions of other characters and the inevitable fate of a woman with her husband behind her.

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power and enchantment of fiction.

A document about the memory and life of men and women who lived in a Portuguese-American community and were once repatriated. Tony, Dulce, António, Manuel and Mário have one thing in common: they have been convicted in a harsh justice that repatriated them after many years of imprisonment. Within the Portuguese-American community to which they belonged, everyone worked regularly when the US authorities decided to reopen their court proceedings.

Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These images and sounds were recorded there in 1977 between the 16th and the 29th of August. To its inhabitants we would like to express our thanks in the making of this film.

The International Boarding House in the town of Caldas de Monchique is the scene of strange nocturnal activities, especially after the arrival of a TV team.

Music video by Vitor & Victoria performing Hello Daddy.

At a busy lunch table, three individuals face an unexpected encounter that forces them to confront personal boundaries and the silent pressures of civility.

Who comes riding so fast through the night and the wind?