João Gazua

A sus 63 años y a punto de jubilarse, Joaquim se ve obligado a cumplir una serie de extranas normas para poder cobrar el subsidio de desempleo. Pese a saber que no volverá a trabajar, tiene que ir de empresa en empresa pidiendo sellos que prueben que pasó por ahí en busca de trabajo. En estos trayectos recuerda su vida como inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, donde trabajó como taxista en la ciudad de Nueva York y donde presenció numerosas caídas de la bolsa de Wall Street.

Vitalina aterriza en Lisboa tres días después del funeral de su marido Joaquim. Ha sido campesina durante toda su vida en Cabo Verde y llevaba esperando ese billete de avión más de 25 años para reunirse con él. En el barrio nadie la conoce, nadie la reconforta, los vecinos desconfían. Pasa afligida los días y las noches como una pesadilla, encerrada en la casa de Joaquim. Allí descubre su vida secreta, las cenizas de su relación y la pobreza de un sueño del que solo quedan los cimientos.

Un meteorito se estrella cerca de la granja de los Gardner, liberando un organismo extraterrestre que convierte la tranquila vida rural de la familia en una pesadilla colorista y alucinógena. Uno de los relatos más emblemáticos de Lovecraft llega al cine de la mano de Nicolas Cage y Richard Stanley.

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

A chronology of the Avenue Almirante Reis in Lisbon. Its past and present. A portrait of those that inhabit it.

Una noche, un grupo de trabajadores se da cuenta de que la administración está robando maquinaria y materiales de su propia fábrica. Cuando se preparan para organizar el equipo y la producción, se les obliga a no hacer nada, como represalia, mientras las negociaciones para su despido están en marcha. La presión desencadena una revuelta entre los trabajadores, lo que afectará a todo lo que les rodea.

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth years in the same factory, and finds himself awaiting for the resolution of the court on the application of the insolvency of the factory where he worked. With the suspended production and the unpaid wages, Oscar and his colleagues continue to appear daily to work hoping that they can keep their jobs.

A portrait of the daily lives of young people living in a new-built estate on the outskirts of Lisbon. School is a joke and there’s no work to be had anyway, so the girls try to have fun as best they can. New-girl Eva is very pretty but quiet. The others aren’t sure at first whether she’s arrogant or just shy. Iara and Eva head off to the beach with two boys. The lads turn a couple of abandoned shopping trolleys into racing chariots for them and the atmosphere begins to tingle. Later, they argue with the rest of the group. The other girls manage to get into a club that night but the boys don’t and must kick their heels outside. They’re bent on revenge. They meet up with Eva and go back to her place.

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared to us as a porcelain doll, small, fragile, pale, with a little hair bow. Little by little, she crumbled apart, revealing a charming complexity. We were conquered by the duality of strength and fragility, freedom and incarceration, joy and sorrow. The intimacy and complicity we were able to establish with her made this film possible. In Cat's Cradle, we share her with everyone else.

Lives being lived, words, gestures, gazes cross our paths, amidst a chaos en framed by a rectangular grid of windows and balconies. Rows of buildings interconnected by corridors perched over courtyards. Each ones property off their private slice of the view. The geometry of the life of a neighborhood: Bela Vista.

Generation Orchestra is a portrait of the impact of an initiative by the same name students from the Miguel Torga School, in Amadora. The initiative was inspired by the international project Orquestra Simon Bolivar, the apex of the National Network of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela. Ana, Daniel, Diogo and Monica take part in Generation Orchestra and devote themselves to a project that breaks with the formatted context of public schooling and becomes an indispensable part of their lives. From the onset, starting with Drama classes, we discover their dreams, their relationship with music and their sense of truly belonging to a group.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

A short film