Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

Three unusual paintings played by the director that literally tests her limits in this encounters with the landscape of São Miguel, in Azores. The power that emanates from the filmed landscape is as seductive as the risky shape of the encounter between image and sound. A limit-film for an inventive Portuguese artist.

An experience where fire turns into snow, positive into negative, a beautiful dance of destruction.

Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".

One man (Tony Simões) sees that he doesn't know what to do or how to go on with his life. Many reasons that can lead to incredible acts. The insistence of this man to fight something that is unknown leads him to an idea. Good? Bad? Only he will know! But one thing we can be sure. He will do it!

In the hot month of August, Alice and her siblings go to their grandmother’s summer house. As the days go by, the house becomes a hive of slow straying bodies, as Alice becomes more and more engrained in her grandmother’s colonial past.

This is a story about love, which collides with acceptance and self-knowledge. What does time tell us? Two young people made a promise of love. What started as a joke, intensified. However, the encounter to which they had faithfully committed for a long time, became a faint memory. This woman, while waiting, questions the past, her choices and decisions, which allows her to discover the power of time.

When an old fan breaks down in a crowded attic in Marseille, the sweltering heat forces a middle-aged Portuguese man and a young Cameroonian man to work together to fix it, despite not sharing a common language.

A group of friends play an ancient "cursed" board game — and a death foretold becomes reality. To stop the spirit of their deceased friend, they must face paranormal forces, an eccentric shaman, and the absurd rules of the game itself. Horror with humor and a double 6.

A story of obsessive love and surreal entropy between two people who surrender to absolute desire.

Melanie has recently returned from Africa. She goes on holidays with three long-time friends, but their behaviour becomes increasingly odd.

A sonic and documentary journey into the creation of experimental music in Portugal. The film, constructed through conversations with 23 of the most relevant national artists, reveals different approaches to the processes of experimentation, exploring gestures and respective innovative methodologies.

Audiovisual essay about walking through the streets of Lisbon. It explores discrimination and moving through spaces where one is not welcome.

“See you next year!” a Portuguese fire warden says as he dismantles his control equipment at the end of the season. Humans and nature in southern Europe may be used to forest fires, but that does not change the facts: The ever more massive conflagrations are caused by climate change. We have long been living in the age of fire.

Miguel moves into a new house in Coimbra, where he’s about to start studying. He is already lying on his bed, when his landlord calls him telling he’s late. Then who opened the door?

Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is in search of himself, both excavating the matter and memory of theatre, the matter and memory of life. At home surrounded by statuary and by his Porto, by the sea and in Spain where he was born, on a stage of light and shadow, in the films of Manoel de Oliveira or in the poems of Ruy Belo.

Short film for the 48h Film Project directed by Hernâni dos Santos.

A film that scrutinizes the idea of “soft racism” and how it comes to drink from the exalted Portuguese colonialism. The titular Rosinha is a Guinean native who became the symbol of the first Portuguese colonial exhibition presented by the Estado Novo in 1934. A trip to the past to better understand the present.

Three youngsters from a small town dream of becoming the next big thing in the trap music universe.

After 500 years of African presence in Portugal, Black people find refuge in the utopian creation of The Island [A Ilha]. A place residing in the space in-between fiction and reality, where the potentialities to rewrite histories and think futures are brought together through the characters and their journeys. The woman who escapes the memories of the past by confronting her executioners. The archaeologist who investigates memory so that similar mistakes will not be repeated on the island. The capitalist man who reflects on how he has become the oppressor. The children who energise all the other characters.

Videoinstallation with methacrylate / no sound / 2018. Underwater Images recorded in Baja California Sur (México)

A fictional adaptation by Carlos Motta of "Misadventures of a Sodomite Exiled in 17th Century Bahia," a text by Brazilian anthropologist, historian and gay rights activist Luiz Mott that documents the unfortunate story of a Portuguese man called Luiz Delgado, whose life was defined by innumerable confrontations with the inquisitorial system. Delgado was a known sodomite who persistently defied the social and religious values of the epoch through engaging in romantic and sexual homoerotic relationships. He was first exiled to Brazil where he continued to disobey the strict social values and norms of colonial societies and later sent back to Lisbon where he was tried and ultimately condemned to permanent exile in Angola, after being tortured and publicly humiliated.

A horror musical.

The public rushes around the Minister to visit, as at the zoo, a Guinean village reconstituted in a park of Lisbon: daily activities, Muslim prayer, women with bare breasts. The camera pins faces, attitudes, busts. Then accompanies a dance to the sound of marimbas and drums. To conclude this exotic visit, kings of the tribe are decorated by a general, under the bust of the Republic.

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

A red traffic light leads to an occasional encounter that arouses past feelings. Will Luisa have the courage to live it?

During a perilous maneuver, Socks has his spacecraft damaged. To repair it, he embarks on an unprecedented journey through the vastness of outer space, where a much greater threat dwells: the Astro-Zombies.

Mozambique 1974 - the European name of the capital Lourenço Marques was deleted and replaced by Maputo. Between the delicacy and the apocalyptic, Brisa Solar reveals the little secrets of an African city that was born from a modernist dream, which led a revolution and which today sees its cultural heritage and threatened by Chinese capitalism.

In a small village in the north of Portugal, Agostinho endures the imprisonment of his routine. One day, he suffers a strange seizure leaving the factory where he works at the night shift. Unable to explain the reason for his condition, he returns home, to his girlfriend, to his friends. Subduing his dreams and concerns, Agostinho awaits for the night to come and, with it, another shift.

Matilde’s mother leaves the six years old girl with her grandmother and her sixteen years old cousin. As the night approaches Matilde faces for the first time the weight of acting of her own will.

Cleo is a sweet young woman who lives alone in her apartment. Bored and eager for love, Cleo looking out the window, falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman with whom she only exchanges glances. Dreamily, she believes that the feeling is reciprocal.

António returns to Portugal for his mother's funeral and has to take care of his father, who is incapacitated by a stroke. A macho former naval admiral who made his childhood a nightmare. Until he finds a home for his father, António will have to face the ghosts of his childhood.

A science book: the first epiphany of desire.

Dual channel HD video; PAL (1080p); 16:9; Color; Stereo sound; 7' 43" 03Fr (loop) (Edition 2 + 1AP)

Dramatized documentary about the life and work of Luísa Rosa de Aguiar, know as Luísa Todi, Soprano, considered the most celebrated singer in Portugal.