Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

Killer friends does not promote violence in any way. The purpose of this film is to entertain and raise awareness about Bullying and violence in schools.

Rafa is testing his new camera, Rui and Ana are picking him up. The camera keeps filming.

Matheus, a young middle class boy goes through great heartbreak and makes several questions about his sexuality and his existence. All these doubts and questions eventually lead him to commit suicide.

An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.

A girl enjoys the trip on the best branch of the SuperVia

Irene is a secluded old woman who lives in a house in the countryside. When her granddaughter shows for an unexpected visit, along with a new friend, Irene's isolation is disturbed and she starts to unveil feelings she thought were forgotten.

Talles is a conflicted, damaged soul. He works for his lover, Ricardo, a dedicated port worker. Despite their apparent happiness, though, for reasons even Talles can't fully comprehend, he sees himself dragged into an horrendous plot involving international cocaine traffic, two dirty cops and one container key. During the attempted assault Ricardo catches them in the act and things get out of hand. While Ricardo dies as a man and resurrects as the queer rap superstar Rico Dalasam, Talles stays trapped in the remorse loop, trying to figure out what he has done, and why one boycotts one's own happiness.

In the turbulence of urban life, we tend to underestimate things we need. This documentary asks seventy inhabitants from various social and age groups in the Lisbon metropolitan area to mention what they need the most, and thus a very particular portrait of contemporary Portuguese society is composed.

The painter Sofia Areal is a singular case in the portuguese arts. Her paintings are expansive, open, solar, vital and affirmative. The documentary starts in 2011, with the artist being filmed during several ocasions.

Ana Vieira's place in Portuguese art is unusual: working the trail, the shadow, the passage of light (or bodies?), the reflection, the overlap, the footprint, the memory or planning of the future, her art streak the invisible. And it questions the place of art - and of the viewer, always placed "outside" or with the awareness of "off".

Colonia del Sacramento is a city in Uruguay founded by the Portuguese in the 19th century. It was said that there still lived a man who would be descended from the founders. Going in search of this man, the film follows its trail to the great metropolis of Buenos Aires that reveals its scars, memories and characters.

Carolina Bianchi shares the stage with 16 men - actors, dancers and musicians - selected from a residency at the Oswald de Andrade Cultural Workshop in Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo. The show is an archaic study of passion, a sacrifice of bodies that do not deny their fluids: sweat, saliva, blood. With a dramaturgy organized in paintings, Wolf can be considered a moving painting. Performers form a chorus of crowd into extreme existence, in an unbridled sequence of actions / images: they run, fall to the ground, have sex with each other and recite Emily Dickinson's poems. The montage circulates in several languages, articulating text, dance, performance and theater.

A man drives his car. Something obscure is deep inside his mind.

Documentary about music of Porto, featuring a Capicua interview.

After a discovery of a box with the past of her parents, Beatriz leaves her house to search answers.

Pratas is Chaplin's replica in Lisbon. Always making trouble, ends up with a red eye and running from the police.

An orange journey, from the tree to the glass.

The day starts in Lisbon and with it people return to the streets. These men live in a place which is not a home. Martins, the barber from Luanda, Simões with his spears, Manuel and his films and Francisco's silence share a place to rest, a shelter. They have some affinities with the outside world but they communicate through the words that they don't say. Perhaps the differences are clearest in everything that is silenced.

"The best and most complete documentary about Curitiba". When producer Rudinei Fanfa used this phrase to define this video he wanted to express how much his documentary is rich in content, and how he managed to show in only 47 minutes all aspects of this beautiful city.

In Portugal, João Ribas is synonymous with punk: he boosted several important Portuguese bands, influenced generations of young musicians and crossed, as main figure, different waves of this musical and cultural movement in the country. Lead vocalist and guitarist for Tara Perdida, Ribas was also the founder of Censurados and Ku de Judas groups. "Um Punk Chamado Ribas", by Paulo Antunes, is a portrait of a man made by those who worked with him, with the participation of family and friends.

On a winter afternoon. 20 year Henrique tries to call his sister without success. A boy in yellow has difficulties giving a birthday present to Henrique. Between past and present situations, Henrique searches for attention where it doesn't exist.

Lisbon, 1940s. An accountant works in his office. Behind the desk, a large painting with the old portrait of a woman seems to upset the man.

Paulinho is one of the most charismatic figures of Sporting Clube de Portugal and even world football. This award-winning documentary opens up the world of a man whose life was saved by a job at the club he loved.

A short film about two young men whose lives cross paths by accident. The trip they share together will forever change them.

The extraordinary journey of a mighty rodent, in the horrible world of a human family.

Entelekheia is a proposal for a journey to the deformity of a sick brain. In the course of this, we will begin to follow a path through the shadows of the mind searching for the ultimate meaning of art or beauty. Created with attention to aesthetic detail, this short intends to formulate a criticism of society and its absence of human values. Therefore, the film itself is a psychological thriller, involving a mixture of madness, suspense and fear, factors ensuring this will not be a journey to be forgotten. As this short is a true work of art, only one thing is missing... to make it public!

What characterizes the spaces, differentiating the fields of the cities, the suburbs of the centers is, in large part, the speed of their modification. The circulation experience will have allowed us to compare the looks of foreign artists with the looks of local children, to measure resistance and change capacities.

Mixed signals, narcissism, love for sale: Liquid Love in São Paulo. The lives of the 30-year-old Katharina and 40-year-old Alice intertwine when Katharina enters a new world of online romances through dating apps.

Portuguese people are connected to the sea. With much of its border bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, it will not be surprising that comes from here a huge slice of our income. The fish canning industry, one of the most emblematic and old Portuguese industries, was again very fashionable, partly because of the musician and singer, founder of the mythical Heróis do Mar and the LX-90, Rui Pregal da Cunha, that opened a restaurant in honour of the national canning industry and fado - Can the Can. Now, Pregal da Cunha, who has always liked to position himself behind the camera, tells us this story. Part of the History of Portugal.

Love, fear and anxiety. A couple spends their last night together, in Lisbon, before one of them leaves for another country. A romantic night gives way to unspoken tensions in their life's turbulent present and the world's uncertain future.

Already part of the collective memory of the Portuguese, new or old all have heard of Antonio Manuel Mateus Antunes.

A corpse of a person whose identity cannot be established.

This documentary follows the life of six characters from São Paulo, Brazil: trans women and men, drag queens and kings, workers and college students who discuss their perspectives on gender, sexuality and identity in contemporary society.

Personal record of Radiohead, Junun and Flying Lotus' south american tour shot on an iPhone.

A man takes the last potatoes from the land of the 2007 crop.

Directed by Hugo Conim and Miguel Newton. This is "One Step from Insanity - The first wave", the first part of Buried in Madness – Punk in Portugal 78-88 - The Second Wave.