The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her thesis on “Reality in Cinema”. Maria has an unlimited confidence in what is visible. Her candour and her naivety allow her to see the bright side of life – such as the beauty of the landscape and the authenticity of the place, or what’s left of it. But when Maria enters the final manor house on her list, she soon realises that something is going on in this house that is not as innocent as it first seemed. The manor is truly a house of horrors.
Gertrudes
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
Aia de Portugal
En algún momento del Medioevo tardío, el noble Herren von Ketten (Marcello Urgeghe), en pleno conflicto con el Episcopado de Trento, busca matrimonio en un país lejano, Portugal. Su esposa será una mujer portuguesa (Clara Riedenstein) que se instalará en el castillo de los von Ketten al norte de Italia. Recluida allí, con su esposo en la guerra, quedará embarazada de su primer hijo. Su vida transcurrirá entre criados, lecturas, juegos con un cachorro de lobo y el aprendizaje de algunos oficios manuales. Será un universo pautado por el ritmo masculino y en el que las mujeres deben parir, criar y esperar.
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.
Andreia
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Luísa is forbidden to go out on the street by her mother after being harassed. At home, imagination is the limit.
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
Tia
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
Dona Adelaide
On a spring night of 1999, two teenagers set out in an adventure to save the VHS.
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away
Mãe
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
Justina
Penúltimo largometraje de Manoel de Oliveira, que esta vez se divierte con una película de fantasmas en la que un fotógrafo emprende un viaje alucinado después de retratar a la hija muerta de los propietarios de un hotel. Sin caer en la nostalgia del que sabe que la visita de la Parca está proxima, el director nos invita a un viaje mágico en el que la realidad y la ficción se funden para darnos a entender que la vida y la muerte son una y la misma cosa. Contada con la sonrisa perpetua en los labios, la aventura de Isaac mantiene el encanto y la frescura del cine de la época silente, pero no su característica ingenuidad. Oliveira que, como el mismísimo Diablo, sabe más por viejo que por diablo, como él se divierte, manejando como un titiritero al desdichado fotógrafo.
Voisine
La ciudad de Santa María está sumidiéndose en el caos mientras una facción militar está lista para tomar el poder en un golpe de estado. Ossorio, un hombre que solía llamar hogar a Santa María, vuelve a la ciudad en el momento más oscuro, decidido a rescatar a la mujer que ama de un triste destino en manos de una violenta mafia. Mientras Ossorio busca a su amor, conoce a Victoria en un desvencijado hotel, que a su vez le presenta a su padre Barcala, quien a cambio de dinero está dispuesto a llevar a Ossorio y otro pasajero en su barco, para escapar de la ciudad. Ossorio está decidido a pagar lo que le piden, ¿pero logrará encontrar a la mujer antes de que el barco zarpe?
Transeunte Cuba
A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
Esfinge
Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie.
Queta
Luciano, sale de prisión y es llevado por su hermano, Flórido, a casa de Alfreda, donde trabajará como sirviente. Alfreda le dice que su mayor deseo es que se le aparezca la virgen, lo que deja a Luciano admirado. Además de todo, ahora la rica señora viene con sus pretensiones sublimes. ¿No le bastaba con tener un Aston Martin y un Jaguar aparcado a la puerta de casa, ni tener diez vestidos para cada estación? Todo fue culpa del profesor Heschel, o de quien fuera… Ir más allá de la promesa sería una herejía. Alfreda dijo que no descansaría mientras no viera a Maria y le hiciera unas cuantas preguntas. Filipe Quinta, el Falsificador, afirma tener la solución. Sin embargo, Bahia, su marido, escuchaba música…
Mãe
Aunque Antonio pertenece a una rica familia y José es hijo de la sirvienta, han compartido su infancia bajo la protectora mirada de la criada, atenta a sus mínimos gestos. Con el paso de los años el amor estrechará los lazos entre ellos dos: Antonio se casa con Camila, de la cual José siempre ha estado enamorado, y tiene por amante a la peligrosa Vanessa, socia de José en oscuros e inconfesables negocios. El diablo interviene y se burla cruelmente de la criada que siempre ha intentado en vano conjurar la mala suerte. La trama de estos cuatro destinos entrecruzados pasará por las llamas del infierno.
Stepmother
Película inspirada en tres obras de muy diferente naturaleza cuyas historias se hilvanan con ingenio. En la primera un padre anima a su hijo a suicidarse para evitar la decrepitud. En la segunda, situada en el Oporto de los años 30, Suzy es una prostituta que se debate entre la vida y la muerte. En la última, un amigo le cuenta al playboy que se ha enamorado de Suzy la vida de una joven campesina, Fisalina, que un buen día descubre que tiene los dedos de oro.
Senhora
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.
