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Documentary on the beggining of Portugal's National Health System, when hundreads of young Portuguese doctors were sent to the rural parts of the country, where many people were yet to see a doctor in their entire lives.
A documentary that explores the unlikely friendship between Samuel and Afonso, two characters that get involved in the world of conspiracy theories.
A journalist, in the diligence of reuniting informations to complete the biography of a missionary priest that travelled Africa, visits the village and the abandonned house in which he lived and died. Once there, he acknowledges that not even his scepticism will free him from the forces that persist there.
Documenting my experimentation process, me and a fellow crew member carry an electric generator, a light projector, and a GoPro near the ocean as we delve deeper in our artistic research. Slowly the process demonstration and the resultant imagery start to mingle.
A succession of animated plans.
Four young people talk about the obstacles they face because they are effeminate and discreet in a macho society. Dressed in feminine costumes, they decide to protest by parading in the streets to show that being feminine is not being inferior.
In a distopic future dissident entities surge to take back the power after eras of endemic and hegemonic heterossexuality dominium.
Two professional hitmen face each other in a psychological duel, trying to find out why their boss hired one to go after the other. In this web of lies and threats, only one will survive to tell the story. Whose side are you going to be when the trigger is pulled?
Two siblings share a cigarette. It’s summer, the eyes are closed. They see each other for the last time. A woman and a man talk about love. Of unrequited loved. A loved man is dead. The tide takes their bodies. The place where they came from no longer exists.
Neighbors play tricks on us, surprise us. Cesina Bermudes, a retired obstetrician, once knocked on Mire's door offering help. The director thanked her and, with her memory and creativity, returned the kind gesture.
Abandoned by her mother and then abducted, dragqueen Etruska Waters returns years later to seek revenge. Permeated of irony and sarcasm, this epic and marginal story is narrated radio-style, in the format of a fictional trailer.
Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the Museum Arpad Scenes-Vieira da Silva. Film by Jorge Silva Melo that closely follows the work of one of the most important painters of the second half of the 20th century, specifically in the area of portrait.
Camila lives surrounded by devices, cables and the brightness of screens. Your job is to fix broken machines. His loneliness is broken, momentarily, by online presence, by dream sharing and Lynchian travels.
A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.
Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.
In a world where women are only alowd to eat strawberry ice cream, and men, chocolate, Madá Luz, an aspiring actress, has to make a difficult decision that could affect her career.
After a relationship ends, a writer decides to write about a young man of personal double in his personal life in his characters, but while lighting a cigarette and imagining a finished work, he ends up discovering some things about himself.
A family from Maranhão who lives in São Paulo finds a way to maintain themselves in the pandemic period, undertaking homemade bread. In the midst of so many uncertainties, the individual difficulties and achievements of each person in this family are reported. From humble origins and eager to grow, they find strength and willingness to move forward, having to face new challenges in the big city, in search of job opportunities and better living conditions. The trajectory of a simple family, but full of values and experiences to tell.
A girl finds herself trapped in a society that aims to mold everyone into the same image. All she wants is to develop her own personality, even if it means being rejected.
A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 - Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that will gradually unravel the circumstances in which these original filming were made, during the period of Portuguese domination of Mozambique, based on Margot Dias' unpublished diary and other texts and sounds, from archives related to the colonial period. But it's also these materials' confrontation with the people we are meeting on the trip to Mozambique, to whom we want to return part of its history.
A man comes home to fight his nightmares and instincts.
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the end of the Portuguese Empire, he who created the first metaphors against the Portuguese Colonialism. And who, with constant vitality, has opposed himself against the New World Order. Knowing, with Eliot, that “the past and the future time are both always present on the present time”
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A film about the process of artisanal making of silk. In the beginning of the filme Teresa Frade, the main character, tries to find the leaves for the newborn silkworms.
After years missing, the case of Laís Siqueira is solved.
Created from the solemn Mass composed and governed on the occasion of the consecration of the Orphanage Church in Vienna in 1768 by a Mozart who had not yet counted his thirteen years, the 1989 Mass of the Orphanage is among the highest works of the Corpo Group. Already establishing the first codes of a choreographic writing that would reach its maturity three years later with 21, a watershed in the trajectory of the company, Rodrigo Pederneiras transforms his corps de ballet into a mass of devalued people who, contrary to what the ordinary Catholic Mass preaches, portrays rather the tragedy and misery of the human condition that the longing for glorification of the Divine. In a state of permanent contrition, the bodies of the dancers ritualize the helplessness, fear, affliction and loneliness inherent in the inapprehensibly earthly and transitory nature of the human species. In the incessant search for verticality, their convulsive gestures sound like cries of mercy.
The sensation of being just a hair’s breadth away from the blade of the mythical sword of Damocles was so imperative during the entire gestation period of the ballet from Grupo Corpo that it not only became the broad motif, but also inspired its name: Triz, an onomatopoeic term most likely deriving from the Greek triks/trikós (hair), symbolized in the expression por um triz (by a hair). In order to stimulate the creation of the soundtrack for Grupo Corpo’s ballet, Lenine himself placed Damocles’ sword above his own head by constructing a musical topography interlaced with rhythmical subversions (a passion) from a single leitmotif and using only strings. In a work where the occupation of space reflects the diabolical intermittence and guile worked on time by Lenine’s music, the possibility of creating a series of female duos acted as a soothing moment and a pause for breath.
The rites of ‘Umbanda’ – one of the most widely practiced Brazil-born religions, which resulted from a combination of ‘Candomblé’ with Catholicism and Kardecism – serve as the great source of inspiration for the aesthetic scene design of Gira. ‘Exu’, the most human of the ‘Orixás’ – without whom, in religions of African origin, the ritual simply won’t happen – is the main poetic imagery which evokes the eleven musical themes especially created by Metá Metá, for Gira. First and foremost, the artistic creators of Grupo Corpo had to delve into the universe of Afro-Brazilian religions in preparation for the theme proposed by Metá Metá. However, the performance is far from being a mimetic representation of these syncretic rituals. Instead, the choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras re(constructs) the powerful glossary of gestures and movement he accessed as he experienced rites of ‘Camdomblé’ as well as ‘Umbanda’, particularly ‘Exu’ ceremonies (giras de Exu).
On a normal day, Isabel gets a visit from a stranger named Lisa, who tells her she has some information about her missing son. As Isabel let's Lisa into her house, she finds Lisa strangely comfortable.