Carla Bolito

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

Portugal, 1917. Tres niños afirman haber visto a la Virgen María en Fátima. Sus revelaciones enfurecen al Gobierno y a la Iglesia que intentan obligarles a retractarse de su historia. Pero a medida que se extiende la noticia de su profecía, miles de peregrinos acuden a Fátima con la esperanza de presenciar un milagro. Lo que allí experimentarán cambiará sus vidas para siempre.

A typical day in Porto's Cathedral, between tourists and the local community. A peculiar group of women grabs our attention...

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow (played by Maria de Medeiros), prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.

In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book takes a dangerous path, ultimately compromising the love they feel for each other.

Short Portuguese film about history.

Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.

In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life. Today this neighborhood is reflected in a scattered public debate centered on its night life.

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

La película es protagonizada por la debutante en cine Paola Lattus, junto a Álvaro Rudolphy, Cuenta también con las actuaciones de Gregory Cohen y el regreso a la pantalla grande de Valentina Vargas, actriz conocida por su interpretación en el filme “El nombre de la rosa”. La idea original del guión de “Ilusiones Ópticas” fue de Jiménez, quien lo escribió en conjunto con Alicia Scherson (“Play”), y narra las historias de un guardia de un mall que se enamora de una elegante ladrona, de un trabajador ejemplar que es reubicado en su empresa en un puesto casi inexistente y la de un ciego que se opera con resultados casi nulos. Las tres ocurren en el invierno valdiviano y tienen como punto en común a Manuela (Paola Lattus), una secretaria con serios problemas de autoestima.

Pele is a film about a young mulatto woman that in spite of being rich, beautiful and intelligent, feels discriminated because of the colour of her skin. The entire plot is in the early 70's, when Portugal had a dictatorial government, ultramarine territories and lots of racism in its society… Issues like racism, female condition and the spoilt lives of the high-society are the main themes of this movie

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...

Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.

Un jeep se desplaza lentamente a través del mercado, en el centro de Maputo. Al volante se encuentra Rui Pedro, un hombre de mediana edad que no parece muy preocupado por lo que ocurre en torno a él. Conduce a través de la ciudad, pasa por los suburbios y alcanza un camino solitario que lo conduce a un caserío abandonado. En ese paraje mozambiqueño, a la vera de un río misterioso, Rui Pedro había pasado sus primeros años cuando la dominación colonial estaba llegando a su fin y se enfrentó con la trágica e inevitable destrucción de su infancia. Hijo de colonizadores portugueses, su mejor amiga era Ana, una niña negra ahijada de su madre. Allí, por desgracia, tuvo que aprender a reconocer y a convivir con dos realidades bien diferentes –la europea y la africana–, a primera vista irreconciliables. (FILMAFFINITY)

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.