Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

The director takes us on a journey through the Portuguese continental and maritime borders, oriented by a map of Portugal. A year of pictures that cross the four seasons. The landscape is visited in detail, between buildings and natural landscapes, architecture denouncing the presence of civilization. The starting point is the point of arrival - and along the way we are introduced to people, stories, in an accurate representation of space and the life forms that inhabit it, including animals under threat of extinction.

DVD release "Fortress", André Valadão. André Valadão is one of the best known Christian singers of Brazil. Recorded in the town of the same name, "Fortress" is the title of the 11th work of singer, distinguished for his jovial and irreverent style. "Fortress is refuge, protection, a place of support. Restoration, guidance and preparation for battle. God is all that and more, "Andrew posted on his Twitter profile. Among the tracks are unreleased songs and some rewrites with new guise.

“Some kind of popular surrealism about people that live in Northern Portugal, their relationship with donkeys and the way they live. They are so musical that it is possible to manipulate without losing their essence...” - Tiago Pereira

Two brothers survive in a caravan lost beside a deserted road. One of them is an offbeat altruist, the other a disabled, mute, and talented sparrow. In this natural and gloomy setting, where everything blends together, something unexpected will alter the order...

Uncle Zé came from the highlands to Lisbon at an early age, and brought a particular bond with the earth and with men. In the rubble produced by the construction of the underground, he has built a realm where he is King, obeying only to the space that sets him free.

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.

Sometimes pain can make us lose touch with reality, blurring the past with the present and making everything uncertain. And it is in this uncertainty that we find Clarisse, a young woman lost in time who gradually discovers a new reality that could change the course of her life.

When the sky began to turn red, the world changed. Then, fear made people violent and chaos was widespread. Dr. Vega, a young astronomer, is alone and isolated in an ancient palace. Right before she discovers that she is carrying one of the greatest secrets of Man's History, she also discovers that someone knows more than she does.

Loose animated sequences, recovered by Cinemateca Portuguesa through the Tobis Portuguesa labs, from several reels of nitrate film damaged by time. Although incomplete, it is the oldest known portuguese animated film from which some original film actualy survived.

Three mutant pigs with a voracious appetite for human flesh live in an abandoned factory. As time passes, one of the pigs realizes that he is not alone in the factory. A werewolf emerges from the darkness, ready and determined to put an end to the mutants' feast.

Comemorando os 15 anos da maior banda independente do Brasil este DVD apresenta um show ao vivo gravado no Teatro Mars em junho de 2001 com seus maiores sucessos.

Talented, vulcanic and eclectic italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani interprets the traditional brazilian repertoire of Bossa, Samba and Choro.

A man entertains briefly the idea that suffering can't be counted, that two who suffer are not more than one who suffers. Adapted from the book: "Visit to Hades: Auschwitz and Breslau" (1966) by Günther Anders.

Fatemeh, a woman from Iran, shares how food has played a crucial role in her life, helping her navigate and heal from traumatic experiences in this poignant short film.

Between the fields and the road, Miguel's life is marked by the simplicity of gestures and the tranquility of his daily routines. Everyday, he takes care of his animals and loads his car with fruits and vegetables before leaving for the market.

To save Earth from the mistakes of mankind, ancient timelines converge.

Audiovisual essay about walking through the streets of Lisbon. It explores discrimination and moving through spaces where one is not welcome.

Childhood memories of an August holiday. (Extended Version of "Flowers for my Father")

A documentary about the 60 years of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Using unpublished archive footage and interviews with current and former musicians, conductors and soloists, “Sum of the Parts” tells the story of an orchestra that made a decisive contribution to the enrichment of the Portuguese musical scene, recorded more than 70 albums and performed alongside many of the greatest performers in the music industry.

Meetings in Lisbon...

Hora di Bai (a Cape Verdean expression for farewell or escape) describes the last days of the 6 de Maio neighborhood before its imminent destruction, recording the bonds and experiences of its residents.

Using the method of pure observation, Viktor Németh focuses on depicting the life in ZONA (one of the last ghettos in Amadora, Lisbon), raising a lot of questions: is it an art group, community, or simply a lifestyle? Fragments of visually inventive pictures, shattering sounds of electronic music mercilessly flowing from loudspeakers and blurred frames of interactions, inaccessible to us, only intensify the mythicized character of ZONA.

Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person, organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death. Director Andrés Jurado will be present in both screenings.

In a dance where a daughter seeks all the caress never received from her father’s hands, a letter is written by gestures, images and words in an attempt to rescue a relationship that was lost by fear.

On the outskirts of Lisbon, in Seixal, Jamaica is an extremely deprived neighbourhood of unfinished buildings, inhabited by migrants from Africa or African descendants from Angola, São Tomé and Principe and Guinea Bissau. The pandemic has been deepening the poverty and the feeling of isolation of this community, segregated and stigmatised for years. The inhabitants have mostly non-qualified jobs, which makes their economic situation even much more fragile during the pandemic, and given their housing conditions they are much more exposed to the COVID-19 health crisis.