Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

On his 100th birthday, Zé Dias decides to trust his life to a camera.

Comedy Show of Quim Roscas (João Paulo Rodrigues) and Zeca Estacionâncio (Pedro Alves) with a lot of Humor and Music.

Everyone remembers well that night of the burning pigs. José was born the morning after, and some say that he came from that fire, and became man out of the pigs. When his mother dies, José leaves the village for the first time, in search of something more.

João Viana, the crisis of cinema in one minute. On July 2010 the Portuguese Association of Directors challenged the Portuguese directors to do a sixty seconds long film with their own means of production. “Due to the lesser and weaker attention of the governments of this country to the Arts and Culture, where the lower budget is invested and with the goal to achieve improvements in the cultural policies, (…) we propose a challenge to direct a film that is a statement, an individual and completely free glance that will respond to the serious situation of the support of the Arts.

All about the South.

Brazil and Angola while on either side of the Atlantic Ocean have the same language, a common colonial past and many shared stories. In this film, correspondence is exchanged between these two places – some people are longtime friends, others have never met. Their stories intertwine and tell about migration, nostalgia, belonging, war, prejudice, exile and distance. The search for identity and flow of memory are driven by the line of affection that binds the seven pairs of speakers presented in this documentary, people whose life stories are traced between Brazil, Angola and Portugal.

At the edge of Paris, where the rivers of the Seine and Marne meet, Sheylla shares memories, encounters and feelings from the journeys that have brought her here. We can see that she’s preparing to leave again, but which path should she choose when she can go in any direction?

A Portuguese experiment in digital animation, depicting a surrealist sci-fi dystopia.

There is blues in the United States, Flamenco in Spain, tango in Argentina, chanson in France - and Portugal, too, has its own musical style, fado, and its biggest artist is Mariza. Internationally acclaimed Portuguese-Mozambican singer Mariza stars in this compelling documentary film that traces the history of fado back to its origins in the streets of Lisbon during the early 19th century.

Proving that age is only a number, 99 year old Mabel Sawhill continues to run her catering business in the Maryland and D.C. area. Mabel hosts events that number anywhere from 30 to 1,000 attendees, doing all her own driving, shopping, and cooking. She is a genuine testament for active aging!

The suffocating love-hate relationship with the big city is seen in this episode that recounts the horror of eviction, the desire for freedom, the difficulties in the "stone jungle" and the prejudice against street children.

“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...

From a town of steelworkers in the wounded heart of postwar Europe to the lavish glamour of the jet set, this film tells an eccentric and incredible life story set in the world of international fashion.

A documentary about the everyday life and the expectations of three rebels, from Cape Verde, who are waiting for the end of the world. They believe salvation will come with the return of Christ to earth to do justice among men. "To a thousand you'll get, from two thousand you won't pass"

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.

The migration that saw the fishermen from the Vieira coast move inland, where they settled and formed the Avieiros communities. - Cinéma du réel

In this short abstract-impressionist film the animation and music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete hockey game using a new cinematic vocabulary she calls "animbits." Pääbo readily admits she is not the biggest fan of Canada's national game, so the great, though highly underappreciated NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s, Eric Nesterenko, was her hockey muse in this artistic journey. A lyrical and wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of hockey.

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.

Young Pim and the villain Avelino race against each other. In order to win the race, and the prize, Avelino cheats as much as he can.

In times of crisis, how will be this season for Santa Claus?

Candide never loved her. Manipulation is his favourite game.

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.