Betinho
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Black and White Man
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
Brás
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.
Joao
En la primavera de 1940, recién terminada la Guerra Civil, Manolo, un adolescente hijo de un caído en la contienda, es enviado junto a su hermano a un preventorio. El lugar, cerca de la frontera con Portugal, es una especie de internado regido por la Sección Femenina de Falange Española. Allí, Manolo vivirá los primeros amores, el despertar del sexo, los escarceos con las mujeres que le cuidan y un sinfín de situaciones que le harán madurar. "leo´´
Simão Botelho
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...
