Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

In the riverside neighbourhood of Oporto, all the children prove their courage by jumping from the stunning bridge Luis I into the Duero river. Leo has never done it before. He is different but he is getting tired of everyone thinking he is a coward.

João Viana, the crisis of cinema in one minute. On July 2010 the Portuguese Association of Directors challenged the Portuguese directors to do a sixty seconds long film with their own means of production. “Due to the lesser and weaker attention of the governments of this country to the Arts and Culture, where the lower budget is invested and with the goal to achieve improvements in the cultural policies, (…) we propose a challenge to direct a film that is a statement, an individual and completely free glance that will respond to the serious situation of the support of the Arts.

A cup of coffee, a cigarette. A coin, another cup of coffee. Patients roam the halls. They walk alone. Waiting. Another smoke, a burning cigarette. Therapies that appeal to the senses. Routines that pull them back to reality. It's life repeating itself at psychiatric hospital spaces'. Lucidity and madness live together. From the outside world comes an actor in search of his character for a theatre play, diving into the inner world of schizophrenia. Patients are part of the creation of the character. Amidst the haze, the actor finds a poem by Ângelo de Lima, an alienated. The theatre character is born. Cinema documents it.

Set in a Kafka-esque world, we follow the life of Miguel, a famous fisherman that suffers a vengeance from a former prey.

Celebrating a 30-year carrer, the multi-instrumentist, singer, composer, and brazilian writer, Humberto Gessinger is releasing the DVD "Insular - Ao Vivo". This is the register of the concert recorded in Belo Horizonte/MG; It counts with songs from his new album, as well as older hits from his formers works.

How to reinvent democracy by the eyes of two Portuguese activists.

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.

Cosme, a cosmonaut with matching temperament and sideburns, finds himself adrift in space, out of fuel. He manages to take his ship to a service station in the middle of nowhere, where all the robots seem to be affected by a strange phenomenon.

Based on the "Toccata" of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The production and the economic and social relevance of electric cables, may be watched as abstract art to the tunes of jazz.

“Sapphic Folklore” transforms the typical love story into something contradictory: sapphic desire versus tradition. Set against the backdrop of a Portuguese folk dance troupe, the two characters navigate feelings unfamiliar to both of them and, away from society’s judgment, in a rehearsal room meant only for the two, they find themselves.

A mirrored self-interview, across time (a diptych with current images and those from the beginning of Vasco Araújo's career) and across myth (he appropriates the story and words of Maria Callas to tell his own).

For her 30th birthday, Inês eats spicy wings.

Sitting in a tavern, after having had lunch with an old friend, a man remembers anecdotes about his childhood spent in a popular Lisbon neighbourhood.

Dreadfully sweating and glued to his gun, a man wanders around an abandoned factory chasing a mysterious presence.

Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is in search of himself, both excavating the matter and memory of theatre, the matter and memory of life. At home surrounded by statuary and by his Porto, by the sea and in Spain where he was born, on a stage of light and shadow, in the films of Manoel de Oliveira or in the poems of Ruy Belo.

1997. Vera is an introverted ten year old that lives with her mother Luísa in Lisbon. Christian, her estranged French father, only visits once a year. But this summer he invites Vera to come to his house in France. Vera hesitates, realising she doesn’t really know Christian. They don’t even have a common language. Will Vera finally connect with her father? What are the effects of fatherlessness in one’s life?

Portuguese performer and choreographer João Fiadeiro is organizing an archive that is over 30 years old and crosses his work in contemporary dance with the history of the Lisbon studio he is about to vacate. In a few days, João will be dancing for seven uninterrupted hours in a last performance before the final closing of the Atelier RE.AL.

An animated interpretation of the poem "The Dead" By Sophia de Mello Breyner. This adaptation follows the perpetual cycle of the immaterial abyss, the faceless human remains, walking hungry for our bodies, wanting to taste once more the true essence of life.

Aurora, a transexual woman, struggles to get the money for the sex reassignment surgery she so desperately needs. On the verge of suicide, her friends create a crowdfunding campaign that could be her salvation.

The connection between the Portuguese coast line and the memories of someone's past.

Centenary of the death of Alexandre Herculano.

Lume is fired from their monotonous office job and their life is shook. Sandra comes to visit them and help with their mystical anxiety.

Follow the “Bailinhos” since their rehersals to their presentation, circulating among all the parishes of island Terceira as artists and audience, mobilizing across a community that "speaks" his identity, through a genuine popular theatre festival dominated by social satire of current events

An old man takes care of his daughter's flower, who studies in the city.

Dual channel HD video; PAL (1080p); 16:9; Color; Stereo sound; 7' 43" 03Fr (loop) (Edition 2 + 1AP)