A Portuguese Farewell (1986)

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.

En el Japón feudal, la joven noble Iratsume, que destaca por su educación y su inteligencia, vive una historia de amor con el fantasma del príncipe Otsu, que se le aparece en las puestas de sol. Este cuento, desarrollado durante 70 minutos de animación tradicional en stop-motion, se divide en varios capítulos que narran diversas fases de la relación imposible entre Iratusme y Otsu. La estética está tomada de la historia feudal japonesa, y la música se basa en instrumentos de cuerda y percusión tradicionales. Incluso, el príncipe Otsu se expresa en haikus, recitados al estilo del teatro kabuki.

Adaptación de "El libro del desasosiego" de Fernando Pessoa. El hilo narrativo se centra en tres días y tres noches y cuenta con un elenco de casi 40 actores en breves apariciones, que dan cuerpo a los pensamientos del protagonista mientras divaga por Lisboa.

Retrato social típica de un país aislado y pobre, víctima de una ideología totalitaria. "Un universo parada y opresiva rural, roto por ausencias, desacuerdos o silencios, centrado en una pareja - Maria dos Prazeres, Álvaro Silvestre. Estado civil compromiso de relaciones, que se hizo añicos por el conflicto latente de pasiones, debilidades y deseos reprimidos ". Cit:. José de Matos-Cruz en Cais do mira, ed. Portuguesa Cinemateca, 1,999.

The film follows soldiers escape and wander, talk, and drift aimlessly.

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...

Lisboners (people of Lisbon) celebrates the ancient notion of citizenship, the right to the city in the making, in each migrant’s daily life, living and working. It is set in Lisbon but it happens in London, New York, Paris, Rome… anywhere. The Lisboners are people from Brazil, Guiné-Bissau, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, Ukraine, Moldavia, Russia, and Estonia.

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.

Catarina (Maria de Medeiros) es una famosa reportera de la televisión portuguesa con treinta años y un deseo principal: tener un hijo. Sabe exactamente el tipo de padre que busca, y sabe también quién responde al perfil que ha dibujado en su mente... (FILMAFFINITY)

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.

After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who vows to escape the town's crushing poverty even if she has to steal.

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is used as setting to the plot.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

Adaptación de la novela de José Cardoso e Pires sobre la investigación policial en torno a la muerte de un militar fugado en los años 60 en Portugal.