Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

A short and touching documentary about the lives of 5 women who had cancer. Part of a bigger project set to interview women around the world.

The eternal guilt, the attempt at redemption, the infinite ramifications. There is no turning back to what Marília has done.

The story takes place in 1948, in post WWII Europe. Amelia, a young girl, who struggles to communicate with her mother after the death of her father, is sent to the Portuguese provincial town of Elvas for a holiday with her uncles. There she meets Thomas, an Austrian refugee boy, who is being fostered by her Aunt and Uncle while they find his parents from whom he was separated during the war. After a rocky start, these children teach each other the true meaning of friendship and communication. This tale is based on a true story of the director’s grandmother who met a young refugee.

Two young black lesbians stroll through downtown São Paulo, between memories and the future. They walk side by side for the possible love, between two women.

A film that Jon Jost dedicated to his daughter Clara, an artistically designed home movie and at the same time a look back at his life, mostly commented off-screen by Jon Jost. He used the technology of the digital camera which contrasts nicely with his newly discovered love for watercolor painting.

The project addresses the homosexual relationship, criticism and prejudice. It also discusses the relationship of pregnancy with drinks and cigarettes. And last not least, talks about depression and everything that it can cause the character that carries.

Nine people are suddenly asked about the purpose of their lives. Getting to know several unique minds, "Razão de Viver" is a documentary that explores many topics such as Mankind, the pursuit of hapiness, art, money, education and God.

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.

Doomsday fanatics believe that a lost civilization predicted our fate more than 1,000 years ago – that the world will come to an end on 21st December 2012. They claim that fire will pour down from the skies and the oceans will rise up and swallow the land. They are adamant destruction on this date is certain, and evidence confirming our impending doom can be found in ancient calendars and the movements of the stars and planets. ’2012 Apocalypse’ investigates these plausible planetary disasters and whether or not they determine if the end of life on Earth really is lurking just around the corner.

Daily life of an antiques dealer

The mermaid is torn between two worlds, land and sea, its capabilities and its ambitions, it is lost between madness and despair. The stimulus for video dance was an audition, this is a moment when the performer sees his ambitions and abilities are valued, for some can mean happiness, but for others this may be a time of deep depression.

After the reconciliation of a fight, Tomas impatiently waits for his girlfriend Ana to return from her sister's house to the apartment where they live. When messages and calls from people close to the couple begin to arrive, Ana finally arrives and Tomas ignores them.

The encounter emerges as a snapshot of the end of a relationship.

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.

Portuguese short film written and directed by Débora Gonçalves.

In a society where the weak are oppressed, Sofia and Michael share their life stories through a wall

A trans woman, Anjélica, waits in her apartment while Lúcia changes the lock on her front door. While the lock is being changed, the two women converse and we learn more about their situation.

First part of the trilogy that approaches puberty in three Brazilian socio economic classes: A, B and C. The youngsters talks freely about their fears and projects, unveiling a broad outlook about the pre-adolescence universe in São Paulo.

The Tuna Tales Project is a documentary series which unites the stories of one-by-one fishing communities around the world. It gives an insight into the beautiful lives and harsh challenges of one-by-one tuna fishing communities around the world who oer an alternative future – a future in balance with nature.

Through a personal journey through space and time, where the past and present connect, a granddaughter rediscovers with her grandfather the corners of her childhood and ventures to explore her memory, in an incessant search for a fading past . Discovering old cassette tapes, he faces grief and longing, and decides to revisit his grandmother's house, in search of the essence of his journey.

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

Generational conflict within people who live for the countryside, in the countryside. The director and her grandmother.

A Brazilian documentary that shows the cruelty of animal testing in cosmetics and drugs, as well as the obsolete use of vivisection as an educational method.

VIVA ÁGUA is a meditation on the philosophical work entitled ÁGUA VIVA written by Clarice Lispector in 1973. The film reflects on Lispector’s interior experimental monologue on the “instant-now” of time, the discomforts of language which are “beyond thought” and the harmonious dissonant reminders and remainders of that “sometime what is seen is ineffable.”

Campinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.

In the films Untitled (#6), Untitled (#7) (both 1972–6) and Untitled (#8) (1976–7) images of cells mix with galaxies, underlining the circular shape as a crucial element of Palolo’s work.

A newly-born harpy discovers herself.

The life of a Dutch couple who ran a farm in central Portugal before the devastating fires that hit the area in the summer of 2017. What remains is a continuous emergency, a resistance in everyday life that does not forget the trauma of destruction.

After eighty-seven days of social isolation, a person discovers that she is not alone in her home.

Until the Whole World Hears... Live was recorded live at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, and released in August 31, 2010 by Reunion Records. The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Long Form Music Video of the Year at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards. In an unprecedented six-year span with nearly 4.5 million career album sales, a GRAMMY Award, an American Music Award, 23 Dove Awards and 8 chart-topping radio singles, Casting Crowns remains focused on discipleship through music. With lead singer and songwriter Mark Hall's 18 years in youth ministry, the band's message remains rooted in the student services he has led on a weekly basis since 2001, at Eagles Landing Baptist church near Atlanta.

A box with a 1992 VHS and some film slides from a friends trip to Sri Lanka.

The film revives the name of a show staged in 1977, the same year the film was produced, which brought together an impressive cast of singers, poets, and composers in a moment of reflection and evocation of the revolutionary process. With music and lyrics by artists such as José Mário Branco, Zeca Afonso, Paulo de Carvalho, and Fernando Tordo, and performances by Carlos Paredes, Tonicha, Ary dos Santos, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, and the Mineiros de Aljustrel.

The daily life and experiences of three Erasmus students who spend their time in the small town of Abrantes in Portugal.

Alfredo Loureiro, a carpenter by trade, never knew any other passion in life besides his craft. Women intimidated him, so he spent more time avoiding them than courting them. But all it took was one glance at Emília's smile for everything to change. At 78, Alfredo discovers true love and will do anything to experience this feeling, which had been unknown to him his entire life.

Ti Raul, 93 years old, is the oldest shellfish collector in the municipality of Aljezur. Guardian of the memory of the history of fishermen settling in the bay of Arrifana beach. He takes us through his personal and family experience to the current Portinho da Arrifana and the fishing community where his son Giló and his grandson Eugénio continue to practice the ancestral arts of artisanal fishing to earn their daily bread. The daily hustle and bustle of the boats and the unloading of fish for the local auction coexists with the whistle of the surfers' monitors in the coming and going of the sea waves that they share in common, while a little bell in the distance on the beach announces the arrival of the Berlin balls to the delight of summer bathers.

The life of a Portuguese woman.

Bernardo and Luix seek an affective approach during the period of social detachment. In the midst of chaos, they try to discover other ways of loving.

Journalist Luiz Cláudio Latgé listens to couples with adult children about the rapes committed by doctor Roger Abdelmassih, a specialist in human reproduction and one of the pioneers of in-vitro fertilization in Brazil.