Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

A Hungarian oral storyteller, and a Lebanese filmmaker—arriving in Budapest from a different era. Each bringing their own stories and entrusting their words to one another rather rhythmically, they weave a layered visual story.

Tadu Baki follows himself through the jungle. He finds himself in a glass of water.

Full moon. Inside. Perhaps not alone.

Matilde’s mother leaves the six years old girl with her grandmother and her sixteen years old cousin. As the night approaches Matilde faces for the first time the weight of acting of her own will.

is an experimental short film about information overload.

The story of Fábio, a black, evangelical and peripheral young man who lives a complex dilemma about sexuality and religion is the focus of the first part of the film. On his first trip to São Paulo, the boy goes through a series of misfortunes and discoveries that will transform his life. The second part of the work consists of testimonies by Tina Pantosi, evangelical pastor of the "Cidade de Refúgio" church, and Fer Battaglia, clinical psychologist specialized in behavioral therapies at the University Hospital of the University of São Paulo (USP) and a member of LGBTClínica.

José Bento saw folklore creatures in the woods as a child. As an adult, he becomes a writer, but when he realizes that no one, other than children, believes his stories, he becomes a writer of children's literature.

Enzo is a young dreamer who studies hard to enter college and thus give his family better living conditions. He lives in a small town, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, with his mother, Ruth, and his stepfather, Leví. Reserved, Enzo befriends Pato, a new student at the school, and everything changes when the two start to look at each other differently, feeding a feeling that will grow every day. The two, however, will be targeted by the villains Igor and Sapão, who are involved in the murder of a gay couple.

Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, 2011. A slum is about to be demolished. On the verge of becoming homeless, dwellers organize to defend their right to housing.

Two guys. A couple. A customer. Money. Happiness.

António returns to Portugal for his mother's funeral and has to take care of his father, who is incapacitated by a stroke. A macho former naval admiral who made his childhood a nightmare. Until he finds a home for his father, António will have to face the ghosts of his childhood.

Experimental collage video art.

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

A taping of a televised game of Bingo from 2013. The presenter reads the numbers inscribed on the balls aloud. As the winner is announced, however, something about the prize promised seems to be far more curious than anticipated...

Negro Leo, recording session.

https://youtu.be/xlyCFE5uSzY

A profound penetration into a fantastic and sensual world in which fruits and vegetables are mistaken as our deepest most hidden desires. Here, we have them in all sizes, all formats, all colors, for all tastes. In this market, no one goes home hungry.

As the afternoon light fades, two kids play in the woods by a lake. When one of them disappears, the lake and its inhabitants take hold of the narrative and, when the darkness sets in, build up the walls of a maze that encircles the two kids. While one wanders through the forest searching for his friend, the silhouettes, textures and sounds of the forest slowly exert their mysterious grip.

Four young people talk about the obstacles they face because they are effeminate and discreet in a macho society. Dressed in feminine costumes, they decide to protest by parading in the streets to show that being feminine is not being inferior.

Camila lives surrounded by devices, cables and the brightness of screens. Your job is to fix broken machines. His loneliness is broken, momentarily, by online presence, by dream sharing and Lynchian travels.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Nostalgia hits hard in this last record of the great musician Gabriel Messer in the series "Messer In Concert," in an attempt to keep the dream alive, "tutu" intends to immortalize the last moments of an 17 years life experience on the return of the incredible musician to the castle that originated the series. Last Video from the series "Messer In Concert", recorded between the years 2017 and 2019.

In the even more conservative Curitiba of the 1960s, a young man emerged with a spontaneous way of writing poetry. The marginal poet drank directly from the aura of the counter-culture movement of his time. This is Paulo Leminski, the Pole of the pine forests.

A dance or a fight of two bodies opens internal dances under their skins. Two lovers curling into each other in the act of love, their fingers fondling tattoos, initiating a mechanism that will allow us to go to the other side of these tattoos, these images, as if we were Alice facing a mirror-door.

Maria Helena, 57 years old, lives in the small village of Lourel, on the outskirts of Lisbon. Her days are divided by the several chores imposed by household keeping: floor-washing, bathroom cleaning, doing the laundry. This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born “before time”. She goes through the daily routine with all she has left: memories and songs from another time, from a revolution (April, 1974), that fill in the soundtrack of her world and of her days.

Andrei is struck by a revelation when he finds himself staring at a pine tree. At the same time, Olga, Mascha and Irina each hide a deadly secret that no human being should ever discover.

“The neighbourhood that is not a neighbourhood, the ending cycle, Lisbon that is economy, for a moment, or not. We do not know. Now we’re here, in Arroios, at the Intendente Square. The Intendente of women. They were the ones in charge, they dominate. The film brings those memories on stage, mixes them and gives them sounds and music. The neighbourhood that is not a neighbourhood, but a body, with each arm an artery, the legs ethnicities, blends. The dance of what still resists.” Tiago Pereira