Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

In December 2018, after Jair Bolsonaro's election, a team of journalists, anthropologists, and photographers toured the areas occupied by the Guarani people in southern Mato Grosso do Sul. This film is the result of dozens of testimonies recorded during this period. A plural portrait of the historical struggle of a people seeking to recover their lives in their traditional lands.

Chelas nha Kau (Chelas my place) is a kaleidoscope of recordings taken between 2016 and 2019. A film that reveals various layers of what it means to be a young person in a social housing project and lets you into the inner world of a group of friends for whom “Chelas is the capital of Lisbon and Lisbon is the capital of Portugal”.

Ney Matogrosso brings the repertoire of a memorable tour. Among the songs are compositions of renowned artists with a new outfit and some unpublished successes.

Nina must return to her home country after two years of living abroad. On the eve of the flight, she has a dinner with friends, during which stories are told of this group of foreigners in the new country. The next morning, on the day of the trip, Nina experiences a nightmare.

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

Between hesitant whispers and various personal and family archive images, "Will this pain ever subside?" is a love letter sent by the director to her cousin and goddaughter, born nine years after the death of their grandmother, so that she will not forget this grandmother she never knew personally. It is a letter filled with sadness, pain, and mourning for the death of her grandmother, but also with joy for the affection preserved in memory. Marisa Alves Pedro starts with a question, but her letter is full of certainties. It is also a celebration of cinema as a way of filling the gaps in memory, of keeping feelings and emotions alive beyond time, but above all of helping to ease the pain.

Examines the history of photography in Brazil, dating from 1839, and simultaneously traces the history of the development of Rio de Janeiro as one of the world's major cities and a political and cultural center of Brazil.

End of the line is a film based on real events that never happened, but that may happen, you never know​...

In a monologue, a man explains his thoughts on the exploitation of Brazil's native people's resources.

Analysis of the history and memory of the Romani community that has lived for centuries in Portugal.

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.

Cleo is a sweet young woman who lives alone in her apartment. Bored and eager for love, Cleo looking out the window, falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman with whom she only exchanges glances. Dreamily, she believes that the feeling is reciprocal.

The second play, O Homem I, is about the vigorous embrace of the winner, the Celtic European Colonizer, copulating with the defeated, with the slaves from the ships, forming the "Typeless-Brazilian" type. Mixtures of all kinds find their space in the stage in the surprising miscegenation already present in the cast and crew of Teatro Oficina itself. It is the story of the Brazilian Man, the Man of the Country abroad interbreeding with the Country inside, until the Revolt against the very idea—imposed and imported—of man, with the appearance of Zarathustra Antônio Conselheiro.

This work was recorded in a food court in Curitiba during the lockdown in March 2021, one of the worst moments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Photographing touching moments is Rafael's favorite hobby. When visiting his boyfriend's family for the first time, he finds refuge in Ana's room, his boyfriend's grandmother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.