Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

The labor of sardine: fishermen at sea, patching of the fishing nets, casting and drawing of the nets.

An interview by Raquel Varela with Alain Supiot, one of the world's leading figures in labor law, social rights and legal philosophy.

A man tries to find answers by searching his mind.

A dive into moments of concentration and muscular tension typical of the world of sport. Through intrusive thoughts and layers of everyday life, the film approaches the personal and metaphorical dimensions of overcoming. Starring ordinary people from the Parisian suburbs of Noisy le Sec, the film culminates with the passing of an unofficial torch, as a symbol of dream and collective resistance.

Edgar now faced his greatest foe. But how could one fight a shadow?

A very unique and personal vision of this emblematic square in the city of Porto. A film of night shadows; a window on the invisible...

The nostalgia for a past that no longer exists and the attempt to accept the natural course of life lead Gonçalo, a former drummer of a recently disbanded indie band, to finish an unfinished song while struggling with his feelings.

Through Lydia's life, we see the different dimensions that pesticides cause on an individual and collective level.

Jake, a transgender boy, tries to face the difficulties of adapting to a new school, finding himself in conflict with his own body.

A foreigner arrives in a new city. He does not speak the language of the locals nor does he look like them: instead of two, he has several arms, like an octopus. Whenever he wants, the foreigner can pull off an arm and it grows back. He approaches people and even offers them his arms. In time, the octopus-man becomes part of the city, until the day he learns the new language...

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

The starting point was a commonplace: «My life could be a movie». Following what each person believed to be subject for film, this documentary tells 4 life stories. This implies a main question: what moves the protagonists to show & tell their lives as a movie? Revisiting places where they lived, they evoke their memories, and through their personal documents and archive footage, we retrace their paths and decisions in life. As their destinies have crossed at several moments, places and circumstances, we are able to understand it from different, and contrasting, perspectives. They testify post-war famine, emigration to Africa or France, Salazar’s dictatorship, colonial war and the socialist revolution – in brief, the way Portuguese society evolved in the second half of the century. ILLUSIAD is a film about common people’s hopes, disillusions and survival skills.

Maria, a 48-year-old woman, is trapped between two worlds—one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.

A successful black theatre and opera stage director, a very demanding and determined person, is going through a prolonged and devastating spiritual ordeal, of unknown origin, to which she seems to have become accustomed. She lives in a permanent drunkenness, shocking and implausible but paradoxically controlled and with hardly any excesses. She has a growing fascination for the talent and magnetism of one of the actresses, whose career she wants to dominate, as she considers herself responsible and owner of her triumph.

Coalescence is the process of joining or merging elements to form one mass or whole. In this piece, both visual materials and music join and separate themselves in distinct units, forming shapes and sounds that are the combination of elements put together.

It all began as all stories begin, at the start. When I was younger, my mother would sit me on her lap, and tell me that, every day the manta rays would come out of the sea flying, by the hundreds!

June, 2020. João is back in Diogo’s room, where they share memories, smiles and glimpses after months of being apart due to quarantine. Uncertain about their future, they can only enjoy each other’s company while contemplating the urban landscape.

Brazil , 2016 - post-coup period. Pedro is a producer of university films. Queer, anxious and methodical, he only wants a quiet filming set. Câmera Calibre is a short film that talks about resistance: resistance of making independent cinema in Brazil, of being gay in a Brazilian city with a high index of homophobia and of being represented as such on screen - and political resistance in light of a coup against democracy.

A bear is sighted somewhere in the northwest of Trás-os-Montes. The animal causes a natural uproar, but his existence seems to be called into question by some.

"Hic Sunt Dracones" (Here Be Dragons) is a Latin term used in medieval cartography to indicate unknown or dangerous places. This film is a visit to a concrete but imaginary place. A delimited but indeterminate space. It is situated both inside and outside this spatial interval. Almirante Reis Avenue. It takes place in a defined but absent time period. It is January 2019. We went in search of an interpretation of this inhabited and populated place. We resorted to listening, looking, and imagining. We were invested with meaning, divested of models or codes, as much as possible. But everything is a gesture, and here there is a choice, a manifest need to tell.

The last days of Sertório, the famous leader of Lusitania during the Roman Empire.

Anastacia performed at the Top Of The Top Festival in 08/15/2018 in Sopot/Poland! SETLIST - I’m Outta Love - One Day In Your Life - Left Outside Alone - Caught In The Middle

Inspired by a dream of Lorenzza Fior. Lorrenza dreams that a man locked her in a bathroom, but her mind takes the dream to murderous clowns, assaults, shootings and the duo Simone and Simaria.

M, a water drop, wakes up for the first time. Alone in a white and glaring surface, will he discover where he belongs? Will he manage to put an end to his loneliness?

From fragments and dreams reconstruction of a misplaced childhood, black transvestite life technologies articulate through the hair.

Two couples discovering new emotions, touching and deflating feelings. When is one love enough? And how can this love be enough?

video transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 08' 02" 00Fr (edition of 3 + 3 AP)

video installation, dual DVD projection, colour, sound, 16' 41" 15Fr (edition of 3 + 1 AP)

After the death of his girlfriend, the painter lost all his inspiration; he then starts to be pressured by the owner of the gallery. Living constantly with images of his girlfriend, the painter feels hes going crazy, he hears her voice and at the same time he sees her representation in a screen, in the last painting he did.

Sensations on the skin during a pandemic.

After years missing, the case of Laís Siqueira is solved.

Short science-fiction film by José Miguel Moreira.

José de Guimarães's artistic life changed when he went to Africa in 1967 on military service. A revisit to his past.

An old house withers away at the heart of a village ripped in half by a road where cars no longer stop. During the dictatorship, this building was the most progressive Catholic seminary in Portugal. António, the front door neighbor, was brought up and raised a family in its shadow. Ever since the Dominican priests left, he has been its most faithful caretaker - keeper of ghosts, memories, and hallways now emptied of life. Abandoned for years, the town's former epicenter now hopes for a new life.

The failed coup of 1961 that tried to overthrew the Fascist Regime in Portugal.