Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

A Guy, a writer who is at an impasse, torn between what he wants to do—drink to forget what bothers him and keeps him from writing — and what he needs to do — take responsibility for his relationship problems, stop drinking, and write.

After another night at work, Paulo can't park his car and drive home.

A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman share a candid and twisted relationship with a deadline. Trapped in one room, Antonio and Catarina are negotiating the terms of their relationship.

A man, a woman and a road.

Remembrance of things past.

An illiterate Cameroonian woman living in the Paris metropolitan area sees her daily life disrupted by her son's behavior. For some time now, Axel has stopped going out with his school friends and seems withdrawn.

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to escape the burden of memory in a world he no longer relates to.

Jaime Maussán investigates symbols and formations of considerable size that appear overnight in crop fields around the world. Learn more about their meanings and why a county in England is the epicenter of these messages.

A concert off Marjorie Estiano's first tour, recorded in São Paulo.

The stories of Nasreddin carry out a reversal of 'point of view' which shatter our established way of seeing things, people, the world and their relationships.

Five characters from the Renaissance have dinner and talk about the state of Europe.

A making of documentary that records the productions days of a university film crew, making a short film called 'Incomum'.

Film by Ana Andrade and Carolina Lago on the poems "Fifth Empire" and "The Fortunate Isles" by Fernando Pessoa, present in the book "Message".

Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took her own life by throwing herself in front of a subway train in West Berlin.

A transsexual moves to Salvador, where she meets a beggar who soon becomes her companion. She undergoes sexual reassignment surgery, and upon returning to her hometown, sees her dreams shattered.

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and “Para Cá do Marão”, by José Mazeda, are three short films, all first works by their directors , shown as if they were a single film. What they have in common is the fact that they deal with crimes. Bruno Soares' film, with Marco Costa, Joel Branco and Carmen Santos, deals with a robbery in Lisbon, with the owner of the house confusing the robber with his son. The one by José António Loureiro, with Joaquim Nicolau, is about a man who leaves prison and has difficulty adapting. Finally, José Mazeda's, with João Lagarto, focuses on a dispute in Trás-os-Montes between a local and a Galician.

A short film that delves into Lara’s memories as she talks about Rita, her first (non) love. Through flashbacks and imaginary moments, we begin to understand Lara’s perspective on their relationship — as she tries to understand Rita’s.

One of the most beautiful tales in human history adapted to musical theatre, based on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, which contains a profound message about the fundamental values of human beings: acceptance, solidarity, spirituality and the absolute power of Love in a memorable show for the whole family, on a fascinating journey to the bottom of the sea!

An elementary school class without a teacher, a contract signing with a giant football club and a new year's eve party. Three tales tinged with aspiration and the desire to escape express a look into a youth absorbed by the power of dreams and the harshness of reality. A generation facing growth in tension with the future.

What would you take with you if you had to leave home without knowing if you would come back? Between 1974 and 1976, nearly 300 thousand Portuguese had to leave Angola. More than 100 thousand were born there. This is the story of the incredible escapes from Angola by land, sea and air. And of everything that they didn't want to leave behind.

A homeless couple occupies a house whose owners are absent. There is a mysterious connection between them and the house that prevents them from leaving it.

An elusive stranger pays Bimbo a visit in the middle of the night to deliver a vital message.

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.

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.

José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.

Mr. Jacinto, a lonely, repetitious and well-groomed gentleman, is finally given, after many attempts, an opportunity to appear as a breaking news piece on television.

A contemporary reinterpretation of the tradition of pilgrimages in the Azores, historically carried out exclusively by men. In the film, a group of women make a pilgrimage to the island of Pico; along the way, one of them disappears, raising questions about their individual and collective existence as female bodies. These are bodies that literally walk to break the bubble of passivity, guided by action, ritual and resistance.

Lou wakes up hungover with a reminder of the meeting she had arranged with her tea fanatic aunt. Will she be able to be ready in time?

Raúl, a computer programmer believes that the world as we know it is doomed and that the project he is developing will change the lives of many people.

A young gay boy from the Brazilian interior has a secret crush that turns in his worst nightmare. Based on real homophobic and violent events.

Maria and Rafa are two friends who grew up in a small town where everyone leaves at 18 to go somewhere else. With the eve of university exams and applications approaching, they will have to face the possibility that this “place” will be the same for both, or if they will each go their own way.

Psychological portrait of the villages in the Portuguese countryside in the early 1980s, through the homonymous character who observes her own life through the eyes of a porcelain doll.

Four childhood friends go on vacation to a village.

Carlos do Carmo's story is told by himself, a journey from his first recording at age of 11, with his own mother and father, to the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas. A story told with the help of family and friends such as Júlio Pomar, António Costa, Rui Vieira Nery, Pilar Saramago, Ivan Lins, among others. This documentary follows a year in the life of a man who reinvents himself in each moment.

“A State for one man is no State at all” are the words from Sophocles’ Antigone. Sara has lost her brother to Covid–19. She wants nothing more than to say goodbye to her brother with a traditional burial that respects the Cape Verdean culture and grave site. In a world silenced and halted by the pandemic, the young woman connects with her community and memories.

What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.

At the world's only ballet school for the blind, located in Sao Paolo, Brazil, a prima ballerina and her teen protege boldly take on the unique challenges of their visual impairments to develop new forms of self-expression through dance.