Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

Two languages and a field of flowers. Here, survival is the most important thing.

In an intimate sound environment, Ângelo de Sousa’s hand emerges as a spot, as a shadow or as a moving landscape.

With the sea and urban Algarve as the backdrop, we follow a complete life cycle of a special shellfish called percebes, the goose barnacle.

André is a 20 year old man who is dating Nina when he meets Thiago. When the two men end up in bed, André doesn't know how to behave with Nina. When Thiago disappears, André goes looking for him with the help of a friend.

Cristóvão, an intelligent young man, is tired of being submissive to a society that does not respect him. Throughout the story, he meets Nurb di Street, a respected young man in his neighborhood. Together, they will try to transform Cristóvão into a "di Street."

A satire of the film world, a film crew tries at all costs to make an advertisement for an emerging beverage brand, "Dlize". Between a lack of talent and professionalism, a director who doesn't know what he's doing, a star actor who has succumbed to alcohol and a bad lifestyle, and an entire crew on the verge of despair, Hélder, the assistant director, and his production assistants Maurício and Emanuel, try to keep the ship on course and manage to film the advertisement.

Humans are confined to their homes, and holograms carry out the tasks that once belonged to them.

Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro in Santa Maria da Feira.

Maduro, D. Lourenço manages to take away Joao Bolandas, to be with the woman, Florinda, his old love, that returns that feeling to him. Simão discovers the mother's connection with D. Lourenço and, from then on, only one desire guides him: to kill Florinda's lover.

Two sisters chat on internet: Fernanda had stayed in Brazil, where she had taken care of her father until his death, while Mariana had immigrated to United Kingdom and suffers for not being there.

The line between dream and reality blurs when a man starts having recurring nightmares of an entity in black with a long chain hunting him down.

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have produced a series of silent films in 16 mm and 35 mm that, scientifically yet with a touch of irony, present small physical actions and particular optical phenomena. Their inventories of nature and their perspective respond to a physical world that is visible and yet invisible, where the concrete is always presented as something concealed. Something that the filmmakers call “abyssology, a transitory science of the indiscernible”. The simple compositions and the tricks they adopt, such as the use of slow motion or superimposed images, are reminiscent of the silent films of the early days of cinema and the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver, kills his boss, Columbano Líbano Monteiro, after being dismissed from his job, when he claimed his right to work. He is imprisoned in Beja, Alentejo, and he is freed until prossecution. The courts are reluctant to judge him, because of the social unrest and the political aid Diogo is receiving from trade unions and political parties. A crowd will disrupt the court, in Tomar, and conduct a popular judgement in the hall of the tribunal, deciding to free Diogo, and condemning the boss, posthumously, for dismissing his employee and attacking him. The case became a law case study since then.

Comedian Salvador Martinha talks technology, trends, relationships and more in a stand-up special that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.

For those afraid of growing up and missing out… “O Sol no canto da Folha” tells the story of a girl who’d rather live in her world of books and dreams than becoming her parents.

At his girlfriend's family's formal dinner, Mateus, an anxious young man, attempts to conceal his secret from the bizarre family members who suspect him.

A boy and a girl lie in bed, discussing the possibility of being inside a dream. The boy shares with her a recent nightmare he had, in which she stole his eye. The girl assures him that his fears are not real and that he is not inside a dream. Suddenly, everything goes black.

A documentary on the Lisnave shipyard, its workers and what let to its closing.

Short film directed by Henrique Rocha

A Letter for master Dordio Gomes (about portuguese painter Dordio Gomes)

"Face to Face" is a portrait of a youth that challenges itself and risk its life for tradition. They belong to a unique group of men who devote the best years of their youth to this group. The abide to the rules imposed by tradition and discipline of a hierarchy. Together they tesT the limits of their braveness and fear. In the arena, under the astound eyes of a silent audience, they put themselves to the test and risk their lives. In Portugal and in Mexico young forcados stand up to the bulls "face to face".

After a few months in a spaceship headed to earth, Eva finds out that her husband lied about the destination of their trip. She tries to change the route back to earth but can't, so she has to continue to live on a spaceship with a man she no longer trusts.

Early Spring. A sonata, a train, a letter. Between his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death of his wife, Samuel faces a dilemma after a visit from his brother.

Workers occupy the Candidinha haute couture workshop.

In an eerie environment inside a mansion, several murders are committed – with a gun, a pair of scissors stabbed in the back, with poison or through hanging – with the aim of getting hold of a small suitcase containing a can of Sacor engine oil.

After a hangout, a young man goes on a long journey back home.

A recollection of the director's fragmented memory he had at the time when his grandmother passed away. The film is a space-time conservation of his house in Bangkok, Thailand.

Follows the weird fiction we live on.

A little girl tries to outwit the ghoul chasing her.

The fight of the Portuguese workers of the company Applied Magnetics against the American employers, who resourced to the Ministry of Labour after not feeling vindicated by their requests for better working and living conditions. After an attempt of reconversion of the factory and a contact with the embassies of other socialist countries, they decide to deliver the facilities to GNR (Portuguese Nacional Republican Guard), due to the lack of perspectives, and find other jobs. The film is composed by images of interviews to women workers and abandoned facilites; and theatrical representations about the process of their struggle.

Edgar is going to Lisbon to study this year. He is spending the summer travelling with Diogo, going from festival to festival. Northern Portugal as a landscape.

A young flutist arrives in Abu Dhabi on a work trip, invited by a friendly couple. After a few days of stay, the possibility arises for her to live there.

Stuka, the protagonist name and his life experience around drugs and his mother.

Life of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, disciple of Cartier-Bresson.

The film brings out the overwhelming reality of abusive relationships. There are several stories that connect from the characters. At work, at home or with the one you love most, each new situation opens up the sickest side of relationships and society.

Between 1940 and 1945, Scheveningen was one of the Nazis’ most notorious prisons. The ironic nickname ‘Oranjehotel’ was a tribute to the many resistance fighters who were imprisoned there. An elderly man recalls his imprisonment at the Oranjehotel during the Second World War. He tells of his experiences in prison and, in particular, of his new cellmate, Pieter.

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during its world famous Carnival, far from the beach and the touristic clichés, there is an explosive contest between neighbourhoods. This old form of carnival features teams of futuristic gladiators that are a surreal mixture of play and menace. A tradition that has its roots in ancient European carnival traditions and in African rituals, they look like visitors from another planet.

Lisbon dawn. Before we leave, let's meet.

Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated by the story of the recently deceased criminal, journalist Caveirinha seeks out the criminal's ex-lover, D. Guigui, to gather material for an article. Her accounts of Boca reflect her emotional state.

Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa meet in a movie theatre.