Rafael Morais

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?

In today’s Tirana, Agim and Gëzim, two inseparable deaf-mute identical twin brothers in their forties, live under the same roof. Ana, Gëzim’s girlfriend, a young high-spirited woman in her thirties, visits them quite often. One evening, Agim is driving back home with Gëzim, when his sight gets blurred and a fatal accident nearly occurs. At the ophthalmologist, a few days later, the two brothers discover that due to a genetic and rare disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, only Ana by their side, the two brothers have to make a strong decision around a cup of coffee with new shoes on.

Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them in the act. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the enemy, making the mission much more difficult.

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

An offbeat examination of Internet crime, shady partnerships and well-deserved revenge, Chasing Eagle Rock asks the question: if they steal your identity, do you still know who you are?

“Heatstroke” reflects on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

EEUU /// Un retrato íntimo de James Dean en la cúspide de su carrera como gran actor e icono norteamericano. Situado en los cincuenta, se centra en las experiencias de Dean como un actor a punto de irrumpir en Los Ángeles y revela una serie de situaciones que se mezclan con elementos biográficos y de ficción. Es tanto un retrato, como una historia de amor y una exploración de la máquina hollywoodense de la posguerra, al tiempo que presenta un lado de James Dean rara vez examinado.

Márcia es madre soltera de dos hijos, trabaja como cocinera y comparte su casa en un barrio periférico de Lisboa con su hermana, Ivete, peluquera en un centro comercial. Un día, Cláudia, su hija, que estudia enfermería y trabaja como cajera en un supermercado, le cuenta que se ha enamorado de un hombre casado mayor que ella. Un apasionado relato familiar con todo el espíritu de los grandes melodramas.

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work.

Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner, by successively meeting up with young strangers.

En la ciudad de Lisboa, Guilherme y Sofia crecieron juntos compartiendo experiencias, y poco a poco, fueron descubriendo su sexualidad. Guilherme, protegido en un mundo femenino, era incapaz de relacionarse con el amor incorrespondido de su hermana y con otros chicos y termina por escaparse. Después de la muerte de su abuela Clara, Él se refugia en casa de su padre, quién está inmerso en un mundo autista, el cual lo deja a él cada vez más aislado.

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

A new film from Bruno Gascon.