Gustavo Sumpta

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana. Suffering from a heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike.

Two men talk about a cat.

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and me.

A father's journey to save his son.

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation that forces its employees to 'relax' at company-run medieval reenactments.

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way one discipline is a vampire for the other, but rather as if they were the different faces of the same coin, drawn to coexist and repel each other. As if every film belonged to a lonely species, Ashes and Embers shows a unique arrogance as it trembles, somewhat defenseless, with no certainty that the folds of fiction constitute any kind of survival guarantee for such strange objects. Memory and ghosts are two words that are easily said, but in this singular and very refined film they seem destined to become the ultimate goal of cinema, and its most endurable desire.

Resistiendo con fiereza en el barrio lisboeta de Fontainhas, donde lleva más de dos décadas filmando, y flanqueado por Ventura –el caboverdiano de triste figura de Juventud en marcha– Pedro Costa regresa, estableciendo un pasadizo secreto entre la Revolución de los Claveles de 1974 y la actualidad en Lisboa. Mientras los jóvenes toman las calles, la gente de Fontainhas busca a Ventura, perdido en el bosque, en un film de misterioso claroscuro como el de su mente deteriorada, perdida en un sueño febril tras una vida de trabajo duro y pobreza.

According to the perpetual lunar calendar: 'When sparks catch a pot of water, it signifies wind. When the hills echo loudly and the sea generates great noise, it signifies tempestuous winds and storms at sea. When dense fog forms at dawn, it signals two days' serenity.' Let’s wait and see.

In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then, elegiac music sets in, a lavish string arrangement of Billie Holiday's The End of a Love Affair. With this one-shot film, Pedro Costa portrays the state of feeling of the afterwards of a love affair which led nowhere.

Amanece en la mañana del 25 de Abril de 1974, cuando Marco, un joven italiano veinteañero y su amigo portugués, Víctor, dejan París en un Citröen de color amarillo. Su destino es Lisboa que, esa misma noche, se ha liberado de una de las dictaduras más duraderas. El deseo de tomar parte en un acontecimiento histórico, que ocurre una vez en la vida, más el entusiasmo de hacer un viaje juntos y la curiosidad de conocer diferentes lugares y gentes, arrastran a estos dos jóvenes a su nueva aventura. Pero la aventura no es está completa sin Claire, que fue la novia de Víctor en sus años estudiantiles de París. Claire está deseando tomar unas pequeñas vacaciones lejos de su rutina, de su marido y de su hijo. El trío compartirá experiencias inolvidables. El mítico Citröen, los maravillosos paisajes que atraviesan, las fronteras que cruzan, los numerosos encuentros que surgen en la carretera, la banda sonora que ofrece la radio: éstos son los ingredientes de un viaje que nunca olvidarán

A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha.

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.

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.

New film by Luís Costa, based on the novel 'Grito' by Rui Nunes.

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man riding a horse gave me a new order, to be even more on alert, waiting for a mirage, for a ghost that will not come."

Short film that takes us to a very recent past, that is still the present in some regions of Portugal, talking about love and betrayal, rage and regret.