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An immigrant mother, hurting from a backache, calls for her son to help carry her groceries home. Along their way, they talk about the future through the past, returning to all of their disagreements, disillusionments, rancor and resentments.
Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give things to young, attractive and good-natured people, and they exploit this shamelessly. Francisco, a neighbour of theirs, has given up on life. He's abandoned his wife and child to take refuge far from those who might hurt him ; in effect dying. He's ashamed of this, and never ever looks at anyone. This has given him, amongst the women of the neighbourhood, the reputation of being able to tell, just by looking at a couple, how long they'll stay together. The sudden news of the death of his much loved wife, upsets Francisco's routine.
In a city where nature has been forbidden, a small crime by a simple man triggers a chain of unexpected consequences.
In the sixteenth century the Padrão Real hung from the ceiling of the Map Room in the Casa da Índia. It was a secret map, guarded from the eyes of foreign spies, which was changed and reworked with the comings and goings of each expedition. Aided by scientific equipment to measure distance, the navigators dreamed up the representation of the expanses that they had covered. When at sea, they looked up to the heavens and gauged their path by the stars, hands drawing in space fictional lines that carved territories. Upon returning to shore, they took the map that had previously belonged to others as their own, erasing divisive lines and constructing new borders. The map that they followed has been lost over time, and what remains of it is a stolen copy, made from memory by one of the cartographers in order to outwit enemies.
The weight of history becomes light in the hands of children. A group of kids become an interviewing team in a Budapest park, a graveyard of enormous old communist statues.
In the aftermath of the 25 April revolution, Ângelo de Sousa documents the shipwreck of an oil tanker near Castelo do Queijo.
After a humble woman from Rooster City meets and seduces a peaceful man addicted to cuttlefish, a series of bizarre events is triggered: a student completes a university degree even without passing the last subject, a man voluntarily moves to his biggest enemies’ city and a trip to Ireland generates a pandemic but also the party of the year. However, danger is lurking around every corner. Fasting beers, rhyming cheers, 50/50 gins and 100/100 tears. Shared beds, a Milkshake brings all the boys to the newlyweds. A priest who lights the way but also promotes xaroca seeking, a Frodo Baggins by the pool after some ass twerking. A fragile man left after a toll tries to impeach a truly iconic and powerful speech. It’s the ultimate war between Chat GPT and the Tardis Of Love. It's not cold or hot, it's... Mild.
An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Teófilo de Braga.
Elsie wakes Löic from a hidden grave in the forest. He does not remember anything, just what they are: vampires. With his memory slowly returning, Elsie fears that the love she feels for Loïc may not be enough to keep him by her side.
Twenty-five years after the edition of “Mutantes S.21”, Mão Morta returned to Theatro Circo for a celebration of their iconic album which remains an important milestone in Portuguese music. The album's nine tracks, recorded and filmed live throughout the concert, are interspersed with some of the album and Mão Morta’s stories told by members and former member of the group; and with documents from that time, including footage of the concert twenty-five years earlier.
Her name is El - a name that sounds like a letter and makes the young androgynous woman a kind of representative of her generation. A generation that is overwhelmed by all the possibilities of the world, globalization and the digital stream. Lisbon is a promise of freedom, independence and an intense life. But the question of meaning brings doubt into everyday life: what if I were happier with someone else or called another place home? When home no longer feels like home, the search becomes routine. When El meets Kay after a break-up, in the midst of her search, their story together begins. Time, space and emotions implode in "Baan", blurring Lisbon with Bangkok, past with present.
A group of children is organized for a common goal. But which? To achieve this, they develop their entrepreneurial skills, explore their talents and abilities, fail, disagree, but do not give up.
A psychopathic artist expresses herself through exotic artistic pieces, until circumstances change and she starts questioning her own reality.
After going through a rough patch, Cirilo discovers that his night would be even longer after having to ask a psychic for help.
A man relives a treasured episode from his youth in this phantasmagoric rumination on the construction and aestheticization of memories.
A circus clown's life spirals out of control when his wife, a trapeze artist, dies during a performance, and, to his chagrin, their son vows to follow in his mother's footsteps.
Romanos bar is the only café in the town of Aboadela: a small place in a valley in the North of Portugal. Here a group of young men spend most of their time - playing cards and talking shit. Some seem to search for a way out of the town, while others have accepted that it is what it is.
A mother and her child evoque a terrible monster from under the bed.
Walking through the lost boundaries of the kingdom, our hero finds his greatest enemy.
A portrait of the impact that austerity measures are having on Portuguese families, especially middle-class families, who were accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle, and suddenly everything changed dramatically. This short film reveals the end of the day and night, when all the frustration accumulated by a husband and father is released, causing moments of pure despair that will definitely mark his family. A dark and claustrophobic view inside a hopeless apartment, an apartment that could be yours.
A Porta dos Fundos special that promises unfiltered humor and satire on everything that unites and separates Portugal and Brazil.
Upcoming film by Lav Diaz. Plot unknown.
A natural study on the motorcycles fauna in São Paulo at the beginning of Covid19 pandemic. Filmed in the early fall 2020, this is Claudio Szynkier's first formal experience with cinema, music and the city. The film is a short musical effort, developed and improvised along a post-quarantine afternoon ride.
Shooted from home-object´s perspective, the film follows a lonely woman locked at home because of corona-pandemic spending her days between fears and daydreams, in company of her furniture and appliances.
While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.
Notebooks filled with words and outbursts remind us of a series of works by Regina Guimarães—her notebooks; works that take the form of a kind of visual diary, revealing (...) not only her inner universe, but also her relationship with the world and its images...
When my grandmother's house ceased to be hers, the photo album was distributed as the only possible inheritance. Now, my mother and I look through the few images that exist and that, for years, shaped my imagination of family. Together, we invent a new album in which we trace the lines that connect us to my grandmother, that woman who always appears with a hard, suffering expression, without smiling.
The natural elements are transformed by chaotic external experiences.
The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests. Pedro, cruelly hurt, pursues the single-minded purpose of avenging his lost love. He captures and kills the executioners, and compels the nobility to acknowledge Ines as his lawful wife and Queen of Portugal.
Theatrical dramatization of Island of Loves.
On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers. Eventually, it's golden frame attracts the attention of a shoplifter, who is almost caught by security because of that feature. After escaping without paying from two other stores, the thief will come face to face with a cop - also wearing a long coat similar to the thief's - and the clock will blurt up again - in the wrong pocket.
Alberto has a vocation to sing, but at home run counter to their ambition. The father, owner of a shoe shop either, the force, that he work in the shop. / Alberto tem vocação para cantar, mas em casa contrariam a sua ambição. O pai, dono de uma sapataria quer, à força, que ele trabalhe na loja.
Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.
A priest receives an unexpected phone call that will make him question his entire life.
7 cool kids head up north to the biggest automotive festival in Portugal also known as Caramulo Motorfestival in 2 modified cars from the 80´s. This is a journey they had envisioned since they had their drivers license, and after all these years, they made it. This is a small film from escáfiamáxima* poorly recorded with a shitty ass Panasonic handycam from the 2010´s, and some parts with a Sony Hi-8 handycam.
In Lisbon, from the height of the Torel viewpoint, the city expands as far as the eye can see making it the perfect place to think and remember. Through encounters with the people that inhabit the viewpoint in different ways, Daniela proposes a reflection on belonging to a new city, crafting a journey to her family memories. She imagines her mother and grandmother when they were her age, thinking about the first places where they lived.
A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts.
A short time has passed. Both arrived to a point of no return, a break is the only way out. One of them has to take the first step. This morning both decide to leave, definitely, without the other realizing it. The house remains empty.
"O palhaço que há em nós”, a Black Castle production, director Eduardo Robalo invites the audience to enter the parallel reality hidden in a clown's smile. “He says he will be a clown until his last day, but father, you will be a clown, forever. An actor in soul, a clown at heart.”
An allegorical day-in-the-life adventure lived through the eyes of a naive, determined Yasmeen in search of her missing homework assignment, while the pressures of the adult world threaten her and her rural mountain village in Pakistan.
A courtroom. A divorce. A drama told in flashback. In a courtroom story, the viewer will witness the divorce of Clemente and Emília, in which the division of property and custody of a child are discussed. But something strange slowly begins to emerge in the testimonies: from the clash between the two versions of the same couple's experience, the truth will come to light.
The atelier of the painter Gonçalo Pena merges into his work. The space's occupation is divided between the solitary and silent moments devoted to painting and the shared moments devoted to conversations with all those who visit him.
'Bué Sabi' (pronounced "bweh sabi") portrays the unlikely friendship of three female characters: a troubled girl of Gypsy descent who lives in one of Lisbon's toughest neighbourhoods, her best friend from Cape Verde and a young middle-class girl. Apart from their differences, they are good friends. Until one fateful night in Lisbon...