Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

Film about Calouste Gulbenkian, produced for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

A man who rips his own morals, where broken attitudes lead to a miserable glory. The risks of living ones limits.

To mark the 125th anniversary of FC Porto, Dugout produced an exclusive new documentary on the passion, history and success of a unique club and city.

In a haunted cemetery, the ghost of a writer dramatizes the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, by H. P. Lovecraft, to an audience of skeletons.

A short film about two young men whose lives cross paths by accident. The trip they share together will forever change them.

A young ex-con seeking redemption is surprised by a bank foreclosure that forces him to plot against a ruthless crime boss.

A short film.

Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a club. After a brief hesitation, the interview happens and we're taken to everyday situations, that can happen to any "freak" of the city...

About love and death, between a man and a woman.

A broken family gets together for Christmas dinner when their mentally ill daughter comes home for the first time since she was institutionalized.

About to enter the stage for the final time, a drag queen revisits all the scars that make up her Carnival.

Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that 340 million people worldwide, suffer from depression. This represents approximately 850 000 suicides a year. The WHO also warns that 75% of people with depression don't receive adequate treatment. There are more and more requests for help from people alone, depressed and with suicidal thoughts. 'Vazio' is the story of a middle-aged man who has lost everything and is faced with the most overwhelming of all evil: the emptiness.

Maria João, 11-years-old, lives in a conservative suburb in the North of Portugal, subjected to the strong doctrine of her upbringing. In full pre-adolescence, she witnesses changes in her perception of reality, and in her relationship with her family and with her best friend Ana. The emergence of sensuality and desire awakens her to new bodily and affective sensations.

Obsessed with a heteronormative identity, Pendro confronts himself with an image that doesn’t represent who he is. On this search performed by him, the marks of violence start appearing all over his vulnerable young body.

"Diário de Bissau" was filmed in 2017 and reports the daily life of the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. By reading the newspaper Diário de Bissau, which the film is named after, we take notice of the local news. This reading is intercut with the testimony of Martinho Barbosa, a Guinean who witnessed Guinea's recent history and presents his view of the key issues facing the country.

Ricardo is an actor, driver, teacher, painter and a dancer at Sensible Soccers' shows. One day he forgets his signature dance move. Will he ever get it back? A film between documentary and fiction that immortalises a dance move present in the collective imaginary.

This film dives into a new world of possibilities, from the diversity of emotions tcreated by this one man alone in this house to his behavior and transformation on the world that he is creating.

A group of factory workers in post-independence Mozambique perform a ritual of song describing their work in South African gold mines and decrying the evils of apartheid.

Renato, who considers himself a non-binary fag, is cleaning his apartment when he finds an item that causes him to immerse himself in memories, homesickness and challenges to maintain relationships with his parental family. Is what separates greater than what unites?

Fábio’s a tough dealer from the neighborhood of Mouraria. He knows everyone and everyone knows him. Fighting to stay alive, he deals drugs and makes sure all debts are collected. In one of those incursions, things don’t go as planned, bringing to the surface what laid within.

We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our oranges, strawberries, olives, blueberries and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy or Portugal.

Eight mysterious murders occur on the UFES campus, and the police have no clues as to the perpetrator of the crimes.

A fine arts student struggles to finish his master's thesis while dealing with his father, an experienced blacksmith, who after visiting a contemporary art museum, decides to become a sculptor.

The Italian Rino Lupo directed some of the most important silent films of Portuguese cinema. Pedro Lino develops, in Lupo, an investigation about the director, discovering one of the mysteries that surrounded him, the year and place of his death.

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.

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.

A woman wanders through the forest. Scenes of mysticism and fantasy where shadows lurk.

Samuel Muxingueno escapes from conflict areas in eastern Angola, and seeks shelter in Luanda. Here, his main enemy becomes his own shadow. Seeking to get rid of it, Samuel turns to life in the darkness of a deserted building. To be able to get back into the light, he makes a radical decision.

"The best and most complete documentary about Curitiba". When producer Rudinei Fanfa used this phrase to define this video he wanted to express how much his documentary is rich in content, and how he managed to show in only 47 minutes all aspects of this beautiful city.

Lludy was left without the apartment where she used to live in Barcelona and now depends on a storeroom to keep her infinite number of things. In the midst of a daily search for objects, from a dress to a television remote control, she revisits her life, her possessions, her immigrant status, her loneliness.

Documentary based on a book by Pedro Chagas Freitas