Discoveries from Portugal World Cinema

On a very cheerful pop music, this film praises the beauties of the landscapes, wildlife, modern architecture and the sweet life of the settlers. Many tourists came from nearby White Rhodesia to indulge in the pleasures of the sea, hotels, safaris. The few Mozambicans are employed to serve them. This film was shot while a few hundred kilometers to the north, tens of thousands of Portuguese soldiers faced the separatist fighters of Frelimo.

A couple arrives at a remote house to spend a few days on vacation in the middle of the countryside, the first night is very busy. What are those noises, what ghost moves the chairs, what kind of people will there be? And what secrets from the past explain everything? Directed and written by Miguel Gomes, his first feature film creates environments that only a cinephile can recreate.

A gay couple meet through a dating app. One of them notices inconsistencies in the things his boyfriend says and begins to investigate his life.

In a dance where a daughter seeks all the caress never received from her father’s hands, a letter is written by gestures, images and words in an attempt to rescue a relationship that was lost by fear.

Nina must return to her home country after two years of living abroad. On the eve of the flight, she has a dinner with friends, during which stories are told of this group of foreigners in the new country. The next morning, on the day of the trip, Nina experiences a nightmare.

A student goes up João Gualberto Street on a bicycle while the third world is about to explode.

The encounter between a robot and an alien creature...

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.

The connection between the Portuguese coast line and the memories of someone's past.

Alquimistas do Som is a documentary about experimentation in MPB. Some of the most important Brazilian musicians comment, in exclusive testimonials, on their incursions into experimentalism: the origins, motivations and consequences for their work and for the evolutionary line of MPB. Current testimonials are illustrated with musicals by Fernando Faro, in addition to other images from the TV Cultura archive. Alquimistas dos Sons promotes an exciting reunion of artists with historical television images.

A washed-up detective receives a call to action.

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.

It looks like you're virtual, I haven't seen skin in a while.

Four Portuguese poker players go on a trip to Las Vegas.

Individual, anonymous 30-second statements filmed in video camera-equipped booths set up at different locations in the city of Rio de Janeiro. No specific questions were asked; participants expressed themselves freely on assorted topics.

Based on the concept of crossroads, the short film "Encruza" addresses issues that go beyond black bodies. In an interconnected way, the narratives are constructed in the encounter of the characters. The elucidation of poignant conflicts are the ends of this crossroads that culminate in this great celebration that is the street carnival in Lapa carioca.

Chronicle of resistance and hope - about Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes: roots of the past, discourse of the future, the current reality.

The paths of pain are populated by men and women of all ages, suffering from lack of affection, lack of money, mental problems, alcoholism and drug addiction, or they are simply people who have come to Portugal in search of a life that is a little better. On the other side of this path there is a veritable anthill of volunteers, social welfare workers and different technical assistants who construct and maintain support structures, some of them thinking of better days, and others institutionalising this help without believing that the phenomenon can be cured.

A broke Count awaits for a bot that never comes.

Documentary exploring the life of the late, famous Portuguese musician, António Variações.

A dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happened in the streets, and minds, of her People in April 25, 1974.

José Nascimento films the process of the Agrarian Reform that happened in the Portuguese region of Alentejo during the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution.

Lisbon, 1940s. An accountant works in his office. Behind the desk, a large painting with the old portrait of a woman seems to upset the man.

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"

A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, filmed in December 2005.

The LGBT activists resisting Bolsonaro's Brazil. Marielle Franco, a Brazilian LGBT and human rights activist, was killed in March 2018. Her widow, Monica Benicio, continued her fight for better treatment of the poor, the LGBT community and black Brazilians. The case of her murder has still not been solved and, as the police investigation drifts, Monica is a plunged into a new crisis: the probable election of Jair Bolsonaro.

War movie made by one adult and two children with the help of a BB Gun.

Laura never had independence. Her mother, her abusive ex-boyfriend, always something holding her. When she goes to Coimbra to study, she finds the opportunity to discover who she is.

Followed by personal armed security guards, Marcelo Freixo has walked all the streets of Rio de Janeiro. This candidate is not the favorite of the municipal elections but even so he seems to foreshadow a problem for many people in Brazilian society. In Brazil, the corruption continues to grow despite the development in course. In expectation of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Freixo continues to denounce and reveal what a lot of people would like to hush up. In just one year, he received 77 death threats. While following the electoral process in Rio, we will show the tension created during this decisive moment in the Brazilian civil society that also gave a lot of hope and created political engagement among the youth.

A fish looses itself from a sandwich and thus starts a graphical journey.

Animation about a girl who sets out to fulfill a wish and has to face some monsters.

In the hot summer of 1975, in the middle of the revolution, in the heat of political and social conflicts, a crime is committed in a slum neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. Analyzing this crime, as its causes, its protagonists, its local and national context, the film proposes a hot reflection on the Revolutionary Process in Progress (Processo Revolucionário em Progresso ) that throughout the year and throughout the country, and on how political contradictions, Social and economic rights that divided Portugal as a result of the military coup of 25 April 1974.

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary.