Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".

Winner of several prizes, including "Best Short Film of 2019 of the Vincentian Schools". Detective Marcos is the most renowned detective in São Paulo. Along with his colleagues, he must investigate a crime that will change his life, forever. An uncompromissed re-reading of 60's noir films.

In the 1980s, the Kibe Lanches restaurant, in the Pina neighborhood of Recife, sold Arab cuisine. On Friday nights, it became a joyful meeting place, whose main attraction was 'Rolinhas do Barão'.

After she found out about her unwanted pregnancy, Angelica lives a nightmare for seven months, in which instead of killing the fetus she languish herself, trying all sorts of abortion methods.

A documentary about a woman from the town of Chandor, Goa. The documentary is a running commentary of her current life in Chandor, as she reminises over her Portuguese-Indian past.

The smallest indigenous reserve in Brazil suffers because of its proximity to the Juruá (non-indigenous). A village within the city of São Paulo. 800 Guaranis, live or survive, with their culture, their language and traditions, the contradictions of the urban world, of the outskirts. After having their land demarcated in 2016. In 2017, for the first time in the history of Brazil, there is a process of demarcation of land.

The life and work of Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, considered the most important Brazilian cardinal of the last century, for his uncompromising defense of human rights, for having confronted the military regime like few others, and for organizing the poor of the city of São Paulo so that they could claim their fundamental rights.

A false diary on a man's journey that, more than just disappear, he aims to be nothing, to become nothing.

“Prune me in January Tie me up in February Dig me up in March And you’ll see what I’ll do to you.”

The story of Boça, a simple and friendly guy from the city of São Paulo, a typical boy from Mooca, but unlucky and living a difficult life. Unlike his father, who is a good trickster, Boça is hardworking and balances his job as an office boy with his college studies and arcade games.

The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.

David Reis is a young computer technician who, after losing his job, gets involved,alongside his friend Luis Pires, in a risky business. Luis, an independent journalist who is narcissistic and obsessed with fame, wants to use David’s hacking skills to leak classified data that would prove fraud in the voting polls of the 2014 presidential elections.

Making of the opera "Riders to the Sea".

The death of worker Manoel Fiel Filho, at DOI-CODI in São Paulo in 1976, is the starting point of the documentary. The film shows the United States acting in the hunt for communists and in Latin American military dictatorships.

On January 8, 2011, journalist and social columnist Carlos Castro, 65, was found dead in a hotel room in New York City (USA). The killer, Renato Seabra, was a young model who had a love affair with him, admittedly in exchange for favors. In December 2012, after confessing to the crime, Renato Seabra was sentenced to between 25 years in jail and life in prison. Using this case as a starting point, director Rui Filipe Torres builds a story about obsession and power between António and Rodrigo.

Nara shares a little bit of her rich journey.

PP decides to invest all his family fortune in a new line of production of his new project for a new FAMEL motorcycle, but he doesn’t expect that someone has other plans for his project.

The Revolution also put an end to the colonial wars in Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Angola. Vasconcelos recounts the absurdity of this bitter conflict. - Cinema du réel

The Man with the Crooked Eyes is a unfinished 1918 Portuguese silent film made for Lusitânia Film and directed by José Leitão de Barros, starring Filipe Melo. This was restored and edited together in 2007 using all existing raw footage.

Stage play performed only by women at the Teatro Avenida.

A horror fantasy short film that questions the existence of parallel universes, the relativity of time, reality/illusion, and multiple personalities.

A documentary on the Lisnave shipyard, its workers and what let to its closing.

From high up in the glacier-carved mountains of Northern Spain, towards the Atlantic Ocean in the cities of Porto and V.N.Gaia in Northern Portugal. A journey through a river and through sound.

The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.

A Portuguese woman reflecting on her life through stories and memories.

In Ace, two friends live on opposite banks of the Tagus River, bound by a closeness that begins to reveal itself as something else. Amid this encounter, one of them discovers a feeling that has yet to be named. The film explores this latent passion through subtle gestures, in which every detail carries hidden meanings and suggests more than it reveals, building an atmosphere of anticipation and suspense. (Liedson Carvalho)

Lana Del Rey live at Primavera Sound Porto on June 7 2024

Fact and fiction mix in these episodes of everyday life, in which the cinematographic device transforms the personal stories of each performer into the narrative of a choral film - protagonists of a film that is both poetic and particular.

Between 2006 and 2014, a building on Liberty Avenue in Lisbon, it was a place for fifty national and international artists, in the idea of developing their artistic practice. Throughout these years, a series of events have taken place including concerts, improvisations, performances, workshops, classes and mostly collective and individual exhibitions. After the emergence of the New Bank, the Avenue space was sold for millions of euros, to make way for a luxury condominium. Here the building itself is retracted as a character, hosting some phantom testimonies of artists who have passed by.

A methodical man, devoted to his career as a computer engineer and to an apparently perfect marriage with Patrícia. But on his wedding anniversary, the unexpected discovery of a stranger in his home triggers a chain of revelations that call into question everything he believes in. In a game of manipulation and hidden motives, love proves to be far more complex and destructive than he was ever taught to believe.

The day they were preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve, Antonio is once again abandoned by his wife and children.

A documentary based on interviews with several contemporary Portuguese Drag Kings, created within the framework of the show KING SIZE (2025) by Sónia Baptista – a co-production of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and the DDD Festival – a project that explores the performativity of masculinity in a queer context.

In a fantastical sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears, but also the adversities of life. A story of learning and finding a path of inspiration.

Documentary about the artist collective 'Grupo Puzzle'

A movie of the 1982 Festa do Avante