Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

What makes a free woman choose a prisoner to develop a loving relationship? “The Visit” is a film about love in this special condition. Among the characters, some met their partners in the penitentiary; others had been visiting their husbands for decades. They feel valued by them and say they are well loved. They are women who insist on a relationship full of constraints and privations, even suffering various consequences of this option on a daily basis. In this film the prison universe is almost exclusively present in the report of the women, and never from the point of view of the husbands.

Sandro, a gypsy, travels with his group bringing the corpse of his late father.

Many years ago, Cebaldo bade farewell to his family, who are members of Panama's indigenous population. Now, working in a Portuguese fishing port, he is overcome by nostalgia every evening and plays a melancholy song on the jukebox in a café.

Colonia del Sacramento is a city in Uruguay founded by the Portuguese in the 19th century. It was said that there still lived a man who would be descended from the founders. Going in search of this man, the film follows its trail to the great metropolis of Buenos Aires that reveals its scars, memories and characters.

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house, and they chat as they used to.

A documentary about the Paralympic Games and visually impaired athletes, featuring audio-description as a part of its language.

Ruan is like a passing rain that crosses Diego and floods him. On his journey to Argentina, Ruan stays for only a day at Diego's place, long enough to bring out the carnal tension between the bodies.

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an artist, and a painter. Eventually, the artist started writing, and impressing the cultural world of his country to the point he became an established artistic name, and a college teacher. So, too, did that young man grow to be a theater and film writer, producer, and director.

A young woman swims in a pool, alone, at night. In the dark corridors, in the shower room, someone is watching her – danger approaches. She returns to the swimming pool and to the past trauma several times, trying to rewrite the memory of the event.

Short documentary by Miguel Brito

The artist sows the word 'Brasil' into the sole of her foot.

Documentary about the plastic artist F͟a͟r͟n͟e͟s͟e de Andrade, who builds objects 'assemblages' from the meeting of several raw materials: antique pieces, boxes, oratories, fragments, images, dolls, etc. The camera accompanies him in his task of collecting these elements, then in the fabrication of an object, observing it inside his house and finally contemplating the result of creation. On the trail, in off, a testimonial with the confidences of the artist.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A personal landscape, breaking with reality—exposed in the allusive photographs—and the confluence of these two languages—one evocative, the other enchanting—through the Woman, a virtual character. Chapters: 1 - "Spring - Work in White" 2 - "Summer - Work in Red" 3 - "Autumn - Work in Black I" 4 - "Winter - Work in Black II"

In Ancient Greek the word Natura (physis) meant that which is being born, it’s the constant rebirth. Combined with the curiosity of exploring the classics of Japanese Painting, in particular the theme of Nature (landscapes, trees and plants) which is usually associated with the seasons and time, there was also an interest in the relation between the constant growth of the natural elements and the apparent fixity of human constructions which as Ruy Belo reminds us actually undergo the same cycle of life and death: “Oh, the houses the houses the houses/ the houses are born live and die”. The intention was to explore the variations of light, focusing specifically on the details of nature in a constant transformation of the space, through the double exposition of images that were reflected in the windows of a greenhouse at the Ajuda Botanical Garden in Lisbon.

Eduardo, a middle-aged man finds images from his childhood. He tries to rebuild the memory of his own past in order to tell the story to his son. In his walk down memory lane he will face death, pain, and separation.

Bruno gets the task of composing a poem for his literature class. The construction of his verses runs through a journey of self investigation in an attempt to declare his feelings for his teacher.

25th March, 2010, 9:30 pm. TD entered the stage of the beautiful big Coliseum theatre in the middle of Lisbon, Portugal’s capital. After a very strange live cello quartet performance followed by a suddenly ’wiped out’ opening with Linda playing an outstanding grand piano solo, you´ll hear what TD stands for after more than four decades: the style, the sound, the compositions. Here – once more – you can witness why this band is original and incomparable – just ´in it´ for the art of timeless music

In keeping with tradition, Lourdes, Maria and Natália wash blankets in the river. What seems to be a seasonal activity turns out to be a visit to hidden places where, in a game between hesitation and the desire to wet their feet, they let themselves rest.

Carol, 27, has always been in the care of a conservative aunt. In her absence he allows himself the chance for self-discovery with the help of a new friend.