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Bound by a silent pact, five students make a secret trip to the country for what seems to be an initiation ceremony. In threatening landscapes and abandoned ruins, they submit to the strange rituals of their leader, the Dux.
“Sapphic Folklore” transforms the typical love story into something contradictory: sapphic desire versus tradition. Set against the backdrop of a Portuguese folk dance troupe, the two characters navigate feelings unfamiliar to both of them and, away from society’s judgment, in a rehearsal room meant only for the two, they find themselves.
Presentation of Western Sahara’s history and the Polisario Front’s struggle for the independence of this territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1976. It shows the social organization of the Polisario Front, gender equality, which is highlighted (particularly in combat), vaccination campaigns, military training from the age of 14, and education into Sahrawi culture, traditions, and music.
When I look at my love, he looks at the boy in front of him, but we only see each other's backs. Never the face. Because we're not all dancing together. We're in pairs. And in this dance, my love doesn't exist. I drag him into it, but only his back. And it was his back that I fell in love with. His broad back, dressed in the most beautiful costume in the world, which is all the costumes he wore.
Maria Inês experiences the first breezes of love during a summer vacation. Accompanied by her friends, she strolls through the neighborhood where she lives, spending her time between beads and a movie shoot.
Expression is a part of being human. Water is the source of an impossible life that rocks and consolidates the figure of a young woman.
A Portuguese bourgeois dares to look at a Spanish lady's delicate ankles at the beach, but his wife will have nothing of it. Later, it's him that forbids his daughter from seeing a young man she had met at the same beach.
Padres begins with a fabulous shot. Instead of two parents, we see two cats, one black and one white. Without exaggeration, one could say that these cats are the first "parents" of the film, happily fighting for food, one more aggressive, the other more passive. It turns out to be a brilliant association in "sacralizing" the animals and eroticizing them.
In a city that was once typically Portuguese, a real estate agent tries to persuade customers to rent tiny apartments, even if it means evicting the people who live there.
A woman has just confessed and the Priest forgives her sins. She prays several Our Fathers without stopping, in continuous rotation. She is a beautiful woman, attractive and also, in her kneeling legs, we see that she only has one shoe, just one, the other is missing. We seek after the beautiful woman's missing shoe.
Away from music for 18 years due to a hand lesion, pianist Yuki Rodrigues returns to the spotlight. Her major breakthrough is the recording of her first album of original compositions, determined to face fears, trauma and her audience.
In a campsite, the legend of a monster that terrorized the area is told: In a remote village, suffering from extreme hunger and thirst, an individual satisfies himself with forest animals, causing chaos and panic. When he is discovered, he is pursued and driven to isolation, but keeping the mystery of his fate. But whoever is telling the story seems to know more than they are letting on...
Maria starts working in the school of a small town. The count starts to feel attracted to her, but she holds a secret she doesn't want to share.
A crazy love at first sight between two men…
A documentary about Iguana Garcia, a Lisbon musician, where we get to know João, the man behind the name, who embodies one of the most promising growing musicians in the world of Portuguese national music. In a personal and intimate phone call, we get to know him without barriers and all his history to this day.
A tribute to brazilian pornochanchadas.
Rodrigo has to return home. He is received by Filipe, the brother who didn’t leave. There are things in that apartment that Rodrigo would prefer to avoid. Like finally having to face his father. During that night, his girlfriend Lena watches everything. In one of the rooms the grandmother is dying.
Lian is a young man from a South American border conflict with his father, is an smuggler undercover of insect creator. With a camera that records what not everyone can see, Lian travels in search of freedom and a car won on a TV contest, and finds an unknown world.
Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation.
Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Submerged in the sea of greenwashing that drowns them daily, two Amazonian filmmakers have decided to denounce, in this film manifesto, the entrails of the historical process of inventing and exploiting the forest as an inexhaustible Garden of Eden. Between Munich and Belém, they reveal how racism and prejudice, in Brazil and throughout the world, are still organised around the idea of a “savage demographic emptiness”, unable to speak for itself.
Ivan has worked has a butcher all his life. His dream is to have a furniture shop, but he isn't sure he is brave enough to change now. The Butcher's is an old family tradition and has been passed from generation to generation, and it weighs on Ivan like destiny itself. He has a daily routine: a machine-like customer service, yet, on his free time, he starts to draw furniture involuntarily. As time goes by he wants to make more and more sketches but keeps getting interrupted by his costumers. The more he urges to draw, the more often he gets interrupted. The more he gets interrupted, the more frustrated he becomes. Ivan starts to project his displeasure on his customers until the day he decides to solve the matter.
The visual debut EP from Lucas Couto, which portrays his band recording the songs live at the legendary Brazilian studio Toca do Bandido
PT: Uma jovem jornalista decide entrevistar o misterioso dono de uma loja de antiguidades local sobre o fenômeno Y2K. No entanto, ao entrar na loja, percebe que esta não segue as regras do espaço e do tempo. Objetos de diferentes épocas coexistem, e o enigmático antiquário parece saber mais do que deveria. À medida que a conversa avança, a realidade começa a distorcer, levando-a a questionar se está apenas a reportar uma história ou a tornar-se parte de algo muito maior. EN: A young journalist sets out to interview the mysterious owner of a local antique shop about the Y2K phenomenon. However, as she steps inside, she begins to sense that the shop is not bound by space or time. Objects from different eras coexist, and the enigmatic shopkeeper seems to know more than he should. As the conversation unfolds, reality bends, forcing her to question whether she is merely reporting a story or becoming part of something far greater.
A short doc about Group 9 of the Portuguese Scouts Association, from Santo António dos Cavaleiros, Loures.
The Serra da Gardunha mountain range in central Portugal has long been associated with the unexplained. Over the years, alleged visions of saintly apparitions have given way to alien sightings, with witnesses reporting mysterious lights in the sky and rumours circulating that a UFO hangar lies hidden beneath the craggy rocks. Meanwhile, two friends speculate over the extent of the mountain’s power as they discuss whether its spirits might be able to offer relief to their old and heavily pregnant cat.
Short film by Joana Leal
Daniel e Daniela is the story of a father who takes his daughter on a journey to her origins. They travel through Cape Verde, São Tomé and Guinea-Bissau, both guided by the desire to see, know and talk. Between laughter, songs and books, everything they will find along the way is a pretext for another story that interweaves past and present, between Nubians, Carthaginians and Egyptians, slavery and colonialism, racism and prejudice; everything is matter for another philosophy lesson, a reflection on the History of Africa or the challenges of development. Daniel, 83, wants to leave his daughter Daniela, 12, with knowledge and critical thinking, preparing her for the future with a heart full of hope and freedom. After all, in Daniel's own words: "the greatest investment is the human one".
Eduardo is an actor who sees his life interrupted when he wakes up with a perfect hole on his finger. He emberks on a surrealistic journey through the light of Lisbon, looking for his missing piece.
Dawn. Through the mist, morning's early light arises. But a stronger one stands out. It's a wildfire that spreads in the distance. From her home, in the top of the mount, a worried woman faces the flames. But it's not the proximity of danger that troubles her. Inside her house, her daughter sleeps, indifferent to the smoke that enters her room.
A bank robbery done by mafia drag queens.
In 1969, Fernando Gabeira was among terrorists who kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick, then the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Eventually Gabeira was captured and tortured before being exiled from his homeland for eight years. He talks candidly about his experiences in captivity as well as the abduction and the motivation behind choosing Elbrick.
A woman sells her work to the most depraved sexual fantasies in the virtual space. But everything is preferable to the reality of his days full of pain and loneliness and M becomes the super operator of the largest pornography company on the globe.
neo noir brazilian short
A short documentary about Brazilian LGBTQ+ immigration in Portugal. Marginal and dissident subjectivities are presented in a film that combines performativity with reflections on invisibility, resistance, and freedom.
A homage to all Portuguese actors. The news that Olga Drummond, the greatest Portuguese actress of all-time, is arriving to a nursing home for performers provokes agitation between residents and workers.
The musician Klaus Volkmann, 30, is the purest expression of someone connected with simple and sustainable ways of life, transport and direct contact with the city and nature. A way of thinking that leads you to view existence as something potentially capable of branching out in any direction.