Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options….

In one afternoon Rafael’s paradise becomes a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can’t fall asleep. Inconsequently, in the big city adults are moved by desire… Catarina found she is HIV…

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.

The darkness of the mine, invaded by the miners’ light, by the noisy machines and the permanent and intense smell of ore in the air, leads us to an environment…

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called…

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She…

Documentary on the work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos.

An expedition through the painter’s work, following his work at his studio and observing some of his recent exhibitions as well as several other works for public display.

A journey inside the tram crossing the city of Lisbon while listening to fragments of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry.

Two young lovers, live in a tiny apartment, struggling everyday to find reasons to stay together. As they are incapable of living apart, they choose to live silently. Last winter…

Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s daughter. As he tries…

A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and public institutions.

He was very happy in primary school, until he was moved to that boys-only school. Through his school memories, the son of the Argentinean painter Alicia Boffi, gives us another…

A jester must entertain. But he doesn’t always want to.

Cinema is the true life.

Memories of youth. Homage to the super 8 film Plus X, that was extinct by Kodak in 2010.

We only understand some behaviour when we duplicate them involuntarily.

Somewhere in the city of Porto, two lower class kids fall in love and dream of a different life.

Short film complementary to the audiovisual performance SOFTWARE RIA.

A cardboard boy makes-believe inside a cardboard box. Dodu, the cardboard boy, is very sensitive and lives in a city wich is really hostile towards little children. So he spends…

‘One day I realized it no longer made sense to make things to hang on walls’… Lourdes Castro became known as the artist ‘who took care of shadows’. Throughout her…

A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.

The day starts in Lisbon and with it people return to the streets. These men live in a place which is not a home. Martins, the barber from Luanda, Simões…

When the fate of small Julinho crosses with Chantel, a transvestite who prostitutes herself, begins a tour on the history of a prince who was a queen in part-time. But…

In a rocky island exposed to the elements, a lighthouse keeper lives alone with his daughter. From the top of his tower, the father keeps vigil to the horizon line…

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in…

Félix, a Down syndrome child who is passionate about soccer gets the opportunity to take part in the main soccer team in a match against the rival school.

A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV.

A grandmother and the house where she always lived.

Five lives cross each other in the labyrinth of the suburbs in search of their redemption.

Helena is doctor in a big hospital. One night she hears a love song through her window and starts living for that song that she hears everynight.

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…

S. had the gift of feeling the life of nature through her body.

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana…

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it affects not only his own life…

Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), this documentary aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime sought to sustain…

The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the…

In a losing war for a nameless cause a soldier is sent to the combat zone to deliver a message from high above to the officer in charge. His mission…

Violante, a young and beautiful catholic nun, is facing a few marital issues with her husband Jesus Christ – who stalks her through the dark corners of a decaying convent…

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The…

A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to understand what…

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to…

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.

Originary from France, the “Tchiloli or Marquis of Mântua Tragedy” theatre was introduced in the African island of São Tomé in the XVIth century. Music, dances and suits are added…

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t…

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life.

In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist couple Rob and Ryan…

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

A portrait of the unique personality of Aldina Duarte, a girlish lady, who sings the “fado” out of conviction and love. The film profiles her, unveiling her personality, travelling with…

The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.

The year thousand. The famine and the war of duchies ravage Brittany. An albino prophet, Godevin, crosses the Finistère to announce the end of the world. With his followers, he…

A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the…

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the…

This film is essentially about the music of B Fachada, but it does not stop in Lisbon, venturing into the interior of the country and, like a postmodern Giacometti, risking…

Documentary on the Maldoror tour of Portuguese alternative rock band Mão Morta.

A famous Portuguese matador goes to Spain.

Forty years later six ex-fighters, that had been together in the War in Africa, keep meeting. They know that, during those meetings, talking about the War is therapy to exorcize…

Every year millions of tourists come to Portugal to discover the country, the people and the culture. Many come in contact with tour guides. They convey history and national identity,…

A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.

Two actors, four characters, one short film inside another one and a sexual tension that won’t stop with the word “cut”.

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…

How to represent an artistic intention without reducing it to a description? How to do it preserving the intentionality of the gestus in an ambiguous andsubjective space where the individualism…

Once there was a boy who was afraid of the dark. One day, while playing on an abandoned factory’s roof, he let a valuable belonging fall through a gap between…

We don`t know much about the future world where people need to visit ‘Kinotels’. But we know that going to the cinema has radically changed. It has become a computer…

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group…

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the end of the Portuguese Empire,…

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

A ritual of three decades takes place in a coffee shop. A fortune-telling mother, a distant father and an excessively noisy family.

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

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

Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner, by successively meeting up with young strangers.

The story of the strongest motherfucker in the world.

Trips and adventures of tram 28, through the work of its illustrious passenger. 28 by José Manuel Xavier, is a meeting between two poets and their city.

This documentary follows a 70 years old, Angolan nurse on a nearly impossible humanitarian mission into her home country. In a southern region that was specially affected by the long…

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco’s team is in the Portuguese Cup final and…

A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also…

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon…

Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal’s most prominent football teams – Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.

Na fase final da vida de Salazar, o estadista recorda a sua vida, as suas opções, as decisões que tomou e as que podia ter tomado. Dar a conhecer o…

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences…

The “Spirit World”, a red diamond with supernatural powers, stolen five centuries before, of the hands of the last Aztec emperor, is the center of this adventure in a cursed…

Film directed in 2009 by Jorge Montereal, shot in Águeda with the participation of José Carlos Pereira, Pedro Anjo, Ana Brito and Cunha. A very Portuguese comedy a little nostalgic…

Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his…

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he’s attacked and robbed…

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will…