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A Portuguese bourgeois dares to look at a Spanish lady's delicate ankles at the beach, but his wife will have nothing of it. Later, it's him that forbids his daughter from seeing a young man she had met at the same beach.
Girl meets girl ... through a security camera. Can Miriam leave the totem and realize her fantasy? Or will she let the unscrupulous Karen stay with Brenda's love?
Live concert of the Irmãos Catita and friends at the Ritz Club, in 1996, Very Sentimental Show. Includes bonus concerts: Cinearte 1993, and Queima das fitas Coimbra 1994. The roots of the Catitas' spirit are buried deep down the origin of time. Spread like Polibas around the World, starting from its own center of balance, elsewhere in the elevator of Grand Hotel Curia, raised by the "madrastas", a kind of so-called religious female-educator, spread amoung the Christian World, and whose main educational tool is the stick, the Catita brothers became early "stars" within the various orphanage they frequented, from French Polynésie to San Marino's Republic, through Casa Pia and the various holiday camps of the former New State, today refered to as Old State.
Portrait of a tannery in Beira Alta and of its workers. The film follows the lives of Carla and Lúcia, the only female workers left after the departure of Patrícia, whose disappearance is the subject of much talk among the workers and serves as a metaphor for the future of the factory after the economic crisis that stormed the country.
A film about the sculptor José Pedro Croft, while it is a journey to the origins of creativity. José Pedro Croft is a sculptor who constantly crosses borders, from drawing to installation, from painting to sculpture, in a constant and surprising game. It mixes color and form, the banal with the solemn, and transforms space by introducing unusual materials. The theme of the film is this constant passage from one form of expression to another, this constant game, introducing one more element: the look of the filmmaker.
A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the 1960 and 1970’s. Considered as a director out of the mainstream, a loner, instinctive, Campos stands for the passion of filming.
Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they know it.
Filmed in 2012 at Piscina das Marés, a building designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira (renowned Portuguese architect) in the early 60's of the 20th century, “SIZIGIA” seeks to use moving images, not only as a method of representing architecture, but as a process of space investigation that explores its narrative qualities and the sense of place created by use, the materials, the light and the sound.
Marcelo D2's visual concept album tells the story of a young man who must choose the path between art and violence on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
This is a film about how war settles in the bodies of the people who are forced to experience it directly. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.
On his 100th birthday, Zé Dias decides to trust his life to a camera.
The Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca are ruined. Poor management and the pride of D. Luís have led the estate to this situation. However, Jorge, the eldest son, is not happy with this and decides to ask for help from a farmer who has prospered: Tomé da Póvoa. Tomé da Póvoa has a daughter who was educated outside the village and is now returning home. Jorge falls in love with her. But the proud and inflexible D. Luís, Jorge's father, does not agree with either Jorge's proposed economic recovery plan or his passion for a commoner.
Naïma is twenty years old. She does the housework at Étienne's, an ancient gastronomic critic. One day, she surprises the old man with a wine bottle and reveals a real talent for the oenology. Étienne suggests then showing her his cellar which contains the most mythical bottles including a Château Mouton Rothschild of 1945, the most expensive wine in the world. The next day there is no more question of housework but tasting. Nevertheless Étienne never drinks.
During the colonial war in Mozambique, a Portuguese soldier captures a Mozambican soldier. During the long journey to the nearest barracks, the two get to know each other better.
A man is tortured by two other men. At least distraction, the tortured man escapes and the lights go up. It's a movie set. Fiction or reality? A movie within a movie.
A young journalist and a convincing cameraman plot to film interviews without their company's permission.
Through monotony of daily realities, we see Sandra, a mother of two, raising her children with a frequently absent father. The satirical representation of her conventional familial life leaves us with questions about her personal desires.
the non-control, the end of the image, the end of the world. the last breath of the city. the last attempt to mend what is about to implode. the work to the sound of the symphony of the end.
Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive Portuguese galleries, the 111 in Campo Grande. Its doctrinal influence and its enormous capacity for enthusiasm would mark in the early sixties Évora's group of painters (Lapa, Palolo) and, in the 80's, artists such as Xana and Cabrita Reis. At his death, a moving tribute was paid to him by a huge and varied group of artists ranging from João Vieira to Miranda Justo. His work is scattered in a large number of private and institutional collections.
In a mountain village in the north of Portugal, a murder occurred. A sixteen-year-old boy leaves the house barefoot, under the cold night, towards the forest. For thirty kilometres he walks, up and down the mountain. He has one single thought in his head.
After a few months in a spaceship headed to earth, Eva finds out that her husband lied about the destination of their trip. She tries to change the route back to earth but can't, so she has to continue to live on a spaceship with a man she no longer trusts.
The subtle but persistent feeling of constantly being out of place.
João Ricardo de Barros Oliveira defines himself as a musician-sound-sculptor and lives surrounded by materials, which he criteriously gathers from dumps and trash containers. He makes vulgar trash the basis for his art, out of objects considered useless he builds sound sculptures with which he performs on stage, in concerts and in workships. Born in Viana do Castelo, he left early to discover other universes, but it was in Berlin that he settled and built his sound workshop. Without an instruction manual he slides some sounds over others and travels and it's a very peaceful journey.
Violence, obsession, and survival intersect in this confrontation between victim and predator... where only one can emerge unscathed.
Is fate stronger than self-will? In a dance that could change her future, Filipa fights against what has been imposed on her.
A friend buys a lie detector and decides to show it to his roommates which inevitably affects him and everyone around him.
A recollection of the director's fragmented memory he had at the time when his grandmother passed away. The film is a space-time conservation of his house in Bangkok, Thailand.
"As I watched you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind like summer clouds across the sky."
In a planet where reproduction is mandatory in the daily life of its inhabitants, there is an alien who just wishes to pleasure herself.
A documentary about the 60 years of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Using unpublished archive footage and interviews with current and former musicians, conductors and soloists, “Sum of the Parts” tells the story of an orchestra that made a decisive contribution to the enrichment of the Portuguese musical scene, recorded more than 70 albums and performed alongside many of the greatest performers in the music industry.
Vicente was a mean old man, short of words. In his collection, he lacked the pyx of mercy he so admired.
A young flutist arrives in Abu Dhabi on a work trip, invited by a friendly couple. After a few days of stay, the possibility arises for her to live there.
A short movie written and directed by André Marques.
Stuka, the protagonist name and his life experience around drugs and his mother.