A short documentary featuring waterman Kalani Lattanzi challenging the boundaries of Big Wave Surfing. Filmed in Nazaré and Rio de Janeiro, he faces the biggest waves in the world, in…
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves…
“A Dança do Cipreste” (The Cypress Dance) springs from our interest in the immanent transformations of the body driven by dreams and desire, love and death, in their lucid and…
Zé Pedro, the legendary guitar player of Xutos e Pontapés, is the greatest name in Portuguese rock ‘n’ roll. He was its main driving force, not only as the founding…
Raúl, a computer programmer believes that the world as we know it is doomed and that the project he is developing will change the lives of many people.
Over the dark and barren landscapes of a city somewhere in the Arctic Circle, we hear the story of a man who dreamed he was a woman, an oneiric reverie…
After the crisis came tourism and Lisbon’s transformation. Alis Ubbo (Phoenician for safe port) follows the change in the urban landscape of the city in the last 2 years.
Ariel de Bigault’s work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works…
Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long…
A documentary that follows a middle-aged Azorean record obsessive who has lost the vinyl collection of his youth, and so seeks to reconnect with it through talking with the fellow…
Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor’s Assistant, Maria João Correia, to force her husband, the…
The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He’ll walk…
Inspired by Bernardo Santareno’s “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the…
Películas is the name of a poetry book by Luís Miguel Nava, a homosexual poet, born in Viseu, who died in Brussels and whose magnificent poetic work remains widely unknown….
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a…
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his…
In a world polluted by atomic radiation, five survivors find shelter in an underground bunker. The sudden discovery of a rare and miraculous medicine will become a source of quarrel…
The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037….
At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he will never return to active…
There is a village in the mountain and a house in the village, where Ema repeats gestures and tasks: she takes care of her grandmother, walks, reads, waits. Until one…
With this trip, an intergenerational sharing begins: with Portugal present as a backdrop, the director and a little daughter wander as if in question, trying to understand the country of…
“Toponymy – As Memórias do Porto” is a journey in a slow, but panoramic train to the past. This film intends to leave a legacy of ancient customs and crafts…
A study about memory, an example of obsession or a prison in itself. Rodrigo chooses to submerge himself in a memory, regardless of what got him there or what might…
Vietnam, 1968, João Cruz and his platoon are assigned to Da Nang when they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the VC forces, commanded by Colonel Tó Huang, Now he…