Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

A science book: the first epiphany of desire.

video transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 12' 07" 20Fr (edition of 12 + 3 APs)

In the middle of a pandemic, Laura has been following a routine with social distance for 70 days and is uncomfortable doing some activities that are out of her own. When she successfully performs the tasks, she realizes that the discomfort she felt was for a much deeper reason.

Documentary about the day-by-day of street vendors in Rio de Janeiro. They tell their dreams, longings, and the harsh reality faced inside the city buses every day.

In January 2013, a fire at Boate Kiss killed 242 people in Santa Maria. Luciane, who is the sister of one of the victims, reflects on the impacts and the learning that the tragedy brought for herself and the city.

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )

An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de Carvalho, otherwise known as The Wolf of Madragoa.

This film was produced during the FILMWORKS - Technical Course in Cinematographic Direction at the International Academy of Cinema (AIC).

The transmission of knowledge between mothers and daughters

The failed coup of 1961 that tried to overthrew the Fascist Regime in Portugal.

Ana doesn't feel at home anymore

Documentary on the media coverage of a beach rampage that occurred in Praia de Carcavelos (Portugal) on 10 June 2005

Four distinct individuals — a filmmaker charting an autumnal trail of leaves, a mysterious girl wandering through the labyrinths of creation, a woman immersed in poignant reminiscences of autumns past, and a man devoted to nurturing the void left by a departed tree — converge in the multifaceted, polymorphic realm of Jorge Listopad (1921-2017), poet, essayist, teacher, mentor, theatre and television director, husband and father.

By instinct, he covers the flame before him. The fire consumes tears and fever, little by little. Only then the sorrow begins. A cold wind sweeps the ashes from the floor and freezes the room.

This documentary portrays the life of young black LGBT+, their experiences and the journey of coming out as LGBT. It includes interviews that detail the daily struggle of growing up in a homophobic and racist society. The purpose is not only address the inherent discrimination among our society, but also highlight the prejudice within the gay community.

In this short film, documentary and fiction is blended seamlessly bringing to life real stories about LGBT people and their experiences at prom.

The history of radio and its connection with Brazilian popular music through Adhemar Casé

Atanásio Nyusi, a compelling storyteller and legendary Mapiko dancer, takes us on a visually dramatic journey through Mozambique's past and present.

Ironic report of the works in the city of Lisbon.

A Portuguese sniper receives orders from his captain.

War movie made by one adult and two children with the help of a BB Gun.

The role of technology in providing a safe space for the empowerment of social movements in Brazil.

In the 1980s, the Kibe Lanches restaurant, in the Pina neighborhood of Recife, sold Arab cuisine. On Friday nights, it became a joyful meeting place, whose main attraction was 'Rolinhas do Barão'.

"- One minute!", Answers a voice that records costumes in a scene of "Tocaia no asfalto" (Roberto Pires, 1962). Who does this voice belong to?

A passage through LGBTQ cinema in all its colors.

A sensory record of the relationships of affinity and enmity with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company of local residents hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management agents, the short film explores the affections established with fire in the midst of combat pyrophobias and management pyrophilias. In addition to documenting fire fighting and manipulation techniques, the cinematographic experiment points to a more than human visual anthropology, where environmental forces such as heat, vegetation and wind make up an alterity whose condition remains ambiguous.

A meditation on the human form and its many representations over the centuries, this archaeological essay compiles images of statues, photos, sketches, and news clippings from Portugal’s Jose de Guimarães International Arts Centre. The filmmakers conjure a slipstream of interrelated origin stories via brief bits of narration and tableaux of various animal and mineral elements.

Anteu is born in a village where he’s the only child around. His mother ends up dying after a while and the father soon follows suit. One by one the people from the village start to disappear and Anteu, now a 17 years old boy carries on with his solitary life. One night, a dream awakes him: who would bury him?

At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings in which he finds himself trapped in a flickering, shifting world of shadows on an intense cataclastic path towards a dead end. Photographed anamorphically on expired 16mm black and white film with a 50year old hand-cranked camera and entirely hand-processed At One Fell Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged amid multiple stratums of time and space.