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A filmic essay that relates the aesthetic representation of dinosaurs with the history of capitalism, with the dinosaur as a figure of the imaginary that is shaped according to political ideologies, concepts of power, gender and extinction.
The story of the voyage of the first Portuguese ship that landed in Japan in 1543.
An experimental movie about sustainability
Two children play a deadly game of Gunslingers.
The elderly Isabel Cardoso works in the kitchen of a nursery school. Her hands are worn, her memory sharp and heavy with grief. In moments of stillness she reaches across the divide, communicating with her deceased mother through the stirring winds, the rippling surface of water, the cracked earth. A richly intimate documentary mosaic of the strength, struggle and transcendence of black womanhood.
What is this place that no one has heard of and that doesn't even appear on the Internet? What secrets do those walls hide? What happened on that fateful night? In an attempt to find out what happened to her, Maria will delve into the mysteries of the school, and her life will never be the same again.
The filmmaker films the last moments before she is evicted from the house in which she has been living for many years. The camera serves as the guide in this process of mourning, building an archive of the house, the neighbourhood, the people that lived there or the ones that visit.
A reflective film essay, a machine of though, presented in tableau-form, composed by digital postcards on video format. Inspired by Donna Haraway the film is about a future of response-ability to inhabit the n-dimensional niche space called Earth or Terrapolis. We look for “real stories that are also speculative fabulations and speculative realisms. (…) stories in which multispecies players, who are enmeshed in partial and flawed translations across difference, redo ways of living and dying attuned to still possible finite flourishing, still possible recuperation.”
Short film directed by Raquel Medeiros
"A Passagem" portrays a brief glimpse into the lives of Idalina (82) and Brazida (79), two Portuguese old shepherd women from Algarve, who live in the middle of nowhere. The film speaks volumes about their lives as well as the twilight of life itself. Two old sisters with their Stoic philosophy, tell the story of their hard works, way of living, as well as a tragedy of husband´s accidental death and more than that, tell the story of countless honourable poor people on every continent. There is an unique interaction and universal human relationship between a Bangladeshi filmmaker and two old Portuguese shepherd despite language and socio-cultural barrier. This film was produced as a “graduation film” for the Erasmus Mundus DocNomads master program in documentary film-directing.
In the quiet town of Ponte de Lima, two young criminals rob a tavern in order to obtain money to support their lives of alcoholism and decadence.
More than two thousand Gibraltar citizens were evacuated to the island of Madeira during WWII, changing forever their lives and the history of the island.
We live in a time where the governments response to the Covid pandemic and other pandemics such as Cancel Culture, Radical Feminism, Identity Policies or Victim Culture push us to the need of reassert our rights such as Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Thought and opinion.
A christmas with my mother.
Summer love is living intoxicated by the sweaty and firm bodies of Rio's beaches. Breathing that dense air, dense like a broth heated and reheated over and over again, a delicious mixture of vegetation, passion fruit and sweat. To love in Rio de Janeiro is to not be able to stop looking at the shapes of the wonderful city, so intoxicating. Nuts, plants, fruits, lumps, more lumps, men who smell like men, penises, fat and thick penises that want to jump out of their bathing suits.
Two boys who just left high school meet in a party and begin to grow a unique relationship.
Within the beating heart of Alfama and Mouraria, the hoods meet to tell their story. In a blend of authenticity, roots, traditional music and cause and effect philosophy, they lay it all bare
A homeless man is rescued from the street by a former psychiatric patient. Little by little, the guest tests the kindness of the host, until the host wants him out of the house. How far can our acts of kindness go?
A jazz jam over old photographs.
Matilde’s mother leaves the six years old girl with her grandmother and her sixteen years old cousin. As the night approaches Matilde faces for the first time the weight of acting of her own will.
"Hic Sunt Dracones" (Here Be Dragons) is a Latin term used in medieval cartography to indicate unknown or dangerous places. This film is a visit to a concrete but imaginary place. A delimited but indeterminate space. It is situated both inside and outside this spatial interval. Almirante Reis Avenue. It takes place in a defined but absent time period. It is January 2019. We went in search of an interpretation of this inhabited and populated place. We resorted to listening, looking, and imagining. We were invested with meaning, divested of models or codes, as much as possible. But everything is a gesture, and here there is a choice, a manifest need to tell.
palindrome | adj. s. m. (Greek: palindromos, running back again) adj. s. m. adj. s. m. A verse or word or group of words which can be read from left to right or from right to left (Amor/Roma).
Images of Los Angeles in the 1970s and a subsequent takeoff from LAX airport give way to Portela, where internationally renowned actress Julieta Pipi has just arrived in Lisbon. Miss Pipi prepares for a tense press conference to be held at her palace on the outskirts of the capital. Faced with questions that are sometimes political, sometimes intellectual, and sometimes even sexually inquisitive, Pipi defends herself, with an Italian accent (influenced by the last film she shot in Italy), against all provocations, even sidestepping impertinent questions about her dramatic training. With the conference setting the tone, the film operates a sequence of flashbacks that introduce us to her work and past glories.
Centenary of the death of Alexandre Herculano.
A documentary on the sculptor João Cutileiro focusing on his works that were created to be displayed on public spaces. The artist reflects on his career as we visit several of his most iconic works, scattered throughout Portugal.
Memory and memories of the last years of a 101-year life.
Brazil and God were the motto. My God! How many Gods were there before? Between life and death, a stricken man elaborates the possibility to overcome. There's a chance to breakthrough by reconnecting with lost principles. This is part three of the "Brasil Profundo"