Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

The odyssey of a man who became a hermit for ills of love and receives a pair of angel wings after defeating the demon.

A short film centered around the concept "Life's Good."

00:00 - past is dead / 02:56 -we are only gonna die / 05:23 - new dark ages / 10:34 - I want to conquer the world / 12:45 digital boy / 16:10 fuck you / 18:14 - punk rock song / 20:30 -beyond electic dreams / 23:30 - submission complete / 26:50 - generator / 30:12 american jesus / 33:14 sorrow / 36:15 infected / 40:16 - dept of false hope

Maria Rita is known as one of the best musicians in Brazilian music. Following the success of her album Samba Meu, Maria Rita and Warner Music are excited to release Samba Meu Ao Vivo, the live concert performance of songs off the album and other songs that represent the best in her collection. Recorded live in Rio De Janiero in June, this DVD is one of the most anticipated releases of the year. The live concert demonstrates the powerful voice of this amazing singer.

A satire of the film world, a film crew tries at all costs to make an advertisement for an emerging beverage brand, "Dlize". Between a lack of talent and professionalism, a director who doesn't know what he's doing, a star actor who has succumbed to alcohol and a bad lifestyle, and an entire crew on the verge of despair, Hélder, the assistant director, and his production assistants Maurício and Emanuel, try to keep the ship on course and manage to film the advertisement.

It is a personal reflection of the mind of an unstable person, living in their own world, creating their own comedy. Although labeled as such, it comes closer to a tragedy the more you look into its fine details. Half an hour can feel like five minutes or an eternity, depending on who is watching.

On a vast glacier, where ice cubes live trapped in a cycle, one of them begins to question its existence and decides to rebel against the monster that controls them.

A collective film by and with residents of Monte de Caparica, whose “development resulted from a process overseen by a permanent team of three tutors (Ana Eliseu, Luís M. Correia, and Susana Nobre), with sessions led by guest directors (Basil da Cunha, Falcão Nhaga) as well as other professionals connected to film work (Paulo Menezes, Leonardo Simões, Nuno Carvalho, Nádia Henriques, André Silva Santos).

Short film by Viviane Rodrigues.

View of Colares and its region. The manufacture of Colares’ wine. Adraga beach. Maçãs beach. The Maçãs beach tram. Azenhas do Mar.

Exploring dreams within their local community the students set out to awaken and root environmental responsibility diving into aquatic practices through an ocean literacy program.

In the mid-1980s, during a summer day, Rui Carlos and his friends Maranau and Tomané enjoy their free time in the neighborhood, between football matches and playful games. Rui Carlos repairs his worn-out shoes and heads out to borrow a valuable football from their neighbor, Dona Olinda, who daily entrusts it to him. As the teams are chosen and the game begins, typical neighborhood interruptions ensue: a visit from Mascote the dog, a break for lunch, and spontaneous games. But when the ball gets punctured, Rui Carlos is left to face responsibility and the realities of growing up.

Janaina is tired, and that can be scary.

Fábio is a character. The Delivery man is a character. The Neighbor is a character. But are they aware of it? If film brings them alive it also imprisons them within the limitations of its own time. But the film is always the same, and He's tired of waiting.

Three strangers arrive at Ribeiro de Baixo, a village on the Minho border, where mysterious night lights foretell the death of its inhabitants. In the silence of the valley, Áurea and Umbelina spend their days watching over the cattle across the border, sharing stories of encounters with wolves and ancestral customs. From France, the grandchildren arrive and casually join the village in witnessing the twilight of a generation and a way of life.

The construction of the Salazar Bridge in Lisbon.

The fight for better working conditions for female workers at the Sogantal clothing factory.

In a remote rural area, a woman on the run has a supernatural encounter surrounded by enigmatic sounds. As she immerses herself in that reality, she is confronted with unexpected phenomena that her rational mind cannot understand.

A middle-aged, grumpy neighbour accuses an immigrant girl of stealing his dog.

Mars, a teenage girl, travels between her conscious and her unconscious, reflecting about her place and her environment and the role she plays in her own life.

Four friends gather for dinner, but the absence of a fifth lingers in the room. While Maya longs to return to the past, the evening reveals that everything — the friends, the town, and even herself — has irrevocably changed.

Airplane takeoff, flight and landing.

A lighthouse keeper, his work, and the purpose (or lack thereof) of a profession devoted to solitude.

It presents the life of Sister Lúcia, seer of Our Lady of Fátima, who died in the Carmel of Santa Teresa, in Coimbra, on February 13, 2005. It also brings the narration of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to the three little shepherds, in 1917, in Portugal.

The living and the dead speak of the life of a three-year-old boy.

While studying in Bruxelles, Daryna Mamaisur is caught up in the conflict tearing through her country. She questions the way in which to speak about it, at a distance, while cinema seems the “least appropriate” means.

A plural portrait of the women that inhabit Portugal

An experimental movie about sustainability

The beginning of a story about a little girl in red.

Commission by Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (Portugal) for the exhibit Faiança Portuguesa to the studio Filmógrafo.

In the quiet of their home, someone is preparing a meal, accompanied by something mysterious.

Often underestimated as such, the anti-colonial wars of liberation were also large scale educational endeavours. Consider the educational strategies pursued by agronomist Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC. Among those, the Pilot School to form “the best students from our schools in liberated areas, and [to be] integrated in our educational system for the liberated areas”.

It’s a story with many layers. It’s about the painter João Ayres (1921-2001), an artist in transit between Portugal and Africa who became forgotten in the narrative of Modern Art. It’s also a story about his family, who inherited a significant body of work. One of his grandchildren, Diogo Camilo Alves, the narrator, wants to make his grandfather’s art more accessible and has been fighting for its conservation and restoration. It’s also a story about the house that the painter built, where many of his works still reside and where his memory is very much alive.

Between 1958 and 1961, Margot Dias participated in four ethnographic missions to the northern end of Mozambique. She shot and taped hundreds of minutes—unique visual and sound recordings of Makonde culture. One seeks to portray the woman behind the records from those trips, from her youth in Germany in the 1920s, to meeting and marrying Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias, to the missions they made together to the then Portuguese colony. As she meets with Makonde people today and hands them back these images, the director seeks the gaze of the other director, whom she knew at the end of her life.

Occupied Territories is the story of a plunder told by the people of the mountains of Caramulo. People speak of their life after the violent occupation and forestation of their community lands by the State in 1941. They speak of misery and emigration, of the ruptures and wounds imposed by the violent course of history, they tell of their resistance to this expropriation. They also have the memory of a time when communities were built in a collective perception of the territory that surrounded them.

We live in a time where the governments response to the Covid pandemic and other pandemics such as Cancel Culture, Radical Feminism, Identity Policies or Victim Culture push us to the need of reassert our rights such as Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Thought and opinion.

Akara in the Fire of Intolerance is a documentary that joins the fight against intolerance that affects religions of African origin, based on the conflicting reality of acarajé, one of the most traditional dishes of Afro-Brazilian popular cuisine, which has suffered a series of of adaptations by merchants who wish to detach it from its religious origins.