Susana Nobre

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.

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.

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.

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.

Somewhere in the mountains, a man lives alone in a disappearing village. Wandering through the misty nature, interpreting among the walls of his dark houses, on the very ground with his destiny to belong to a world that has been rejected.

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence of the modern age on family relationships and science. Her passionate life is examined in detail in an inexhaustible series of stunning archival photos and home videos recorded by Daveau, and in voice-over she speaks openly, extensively and full of wonder about life and the world around her.

One of the most far-reaching events in a human life is the birth of your baby. But life with a newborn can be so ordinary and at the same time all-embracing: the wash is drying in the corridor, the bathroom has to be cleaned. In the calm rhythm of the day, 'Ordinary Time' skims past authentic moments like this.

One of the most far-reaching events in a human life is the birth of your baby. But life with a newborn can be so ordinary and at the same time all-embracing: the wash is drying in the corridor, the bathroom has to be cleaned. In the calm rhythm of the day, 'Ordinary Time' skims past authentic moments like this.

One of the most far-reaching events in a human life is the birth of your baby. But life with a newborn can be so ordinary and at the same time all-embracing: the wash is drying in the corridor, the bathroom has to be cleaned. In the calm rhythm of the day, 'Ordinary Time' skims past authentic moments like this.

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity struggles. Different generations and backgrounds meet, Angola to São Tome, Cabo Verde and Guine Bissau represented by old musicians and young producers.

Patricia encarna a Marta, una actriz que pasa sus días haciendo cuentas y anotando en un cuaderno las calorías que ingiere, los segundos que pasan o los pasos que la distancian desde su casa hasta el correo. Obsesiva y metódica, aquejada por un dolor existencial que se traduce en anorexia, su personaje busca una forma de llegar a su esencia interior con cada respiración, con cada uno de sus gestos y pensamientos.

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.

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into a photoshoot by accident, Chloé who hopes to find a place to do her own work, and Helena who is back in her town for some days, only to find the living shadow of a loss.

“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon, “Campo” hosts today Europe’s largest military base. In this place military troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the piano for the wild deers lurking in the dark.

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.

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão, "BDA".

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in the social housing neighborhoods and shanty towns of Lisbon. It explores the infinite possibilities of narratives and characters generated by the daily confrontation of the normal life of the city with several layers of cultural heritages and lifestyles, brought by different waves of migration. A network of interconnected characters, families and ties makes the narrative to evolve and illustrates the cultural, artistic, social and economic explosion that we are about to live in here.

At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure the situation. In the centre of it all, a mother awaits her son's body. How can life cease to be when in nature there is an enduring renewal?

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to always welcome contemporary creations. Day-to-day life is demanding for dancers, choreographers, musicians, répétiteurs, seamstresses, light technicians, sound technicians, and other elements of a large staff that make it possible for dance to travel through the rehearsal rooms and linger in the hallways before making it onto the stage. This film follows not only the company’s creations and premieres, but mainly each dancer’s silent and structural work.

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Simão and his friends, all of them in their late twenties. Everyone is drawn to the beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but Nicolau will see his life the most deeply shaken by her. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of the tortellini's shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults.

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.

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.

Documental constuido sobre las experiencias de vida y trabajo de personas que acudieron al programa Nuevas Oportunidades de un centro de formación laboral en la localidad de Alverca entre los años 2006 y 2010, teniendo como telón de fondo la realidad portuguesa de los últimos 40 años. Partiendo las historias de vida de los protagonistas, la película se convierte en un debate sobre el trabajo en el mundo contemporáneo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documental constuido sobre las experiencias de vida y trabajo de personas que acudieron al programa Nuevas Oportunidades de un centro de formación laboral en la localidad de Alverca entre los años 2006 y 2010, teniendo como telón de fondo la realidad portuguesa de los últimos 40 años. Partiendo las historias de vida de los protagonistas, la película se convierte en un debate sobre el trabajo en el mundo contemporáneo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documental constuido sobre las experiencias de vida y trabajo de personas que acudieron al programa Nuevas Oportunidades de un centro de formación laboral en la localidad de Alverca entre los años 2006 y 2010, teniendo como telón de fondo la realidad portuguesa de los últimos 40 años. Partiendo las historias de vida de los protagonistas, la película se convierte en un debate sobre el trabajo en el mundo contemporáneo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documental constuido sobre las experiencias de vida y trabajo de personas que acudieron al programa Nuevas Oportunidades de un centro de formación laboral en la localidad de Alverca entre los años 2006 y 2010, teniendo como telón de fondo la realidad portuguesa de los últimos 40 años. Partiendo las historias de vida de los protagonistas, la película se convierte en un debate sobre el trabajo en el mundo contemporáneo. (FILMAFFINITY)

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.

David, wood-mask sculptor, and Adélia, ancient songs connoisseur, are the characters of this movie set in Trás-os-Montes, north-east of Portugal. They testify the neglect condition of this land, where survive traces of a prehistoric ocean.

Summer late afternoon in a Lisbon suburb. The concerns and expectations of a group of friends as they shift to a new stage of their lives.

Lisbon, April 2006. The casino is inaugurated in Lisbon, in a ceremony where popular and VIP guests flocked, the first ones watching on the street and the second hanging out in a huge tent set up for this purpose; But both are waiting for the moment when the casino will open its doors. What is the difference of behaviors between the two groups present?

They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table laid. It would be the beginning of a long day at work. The daily ritual of a house inhabited by a mother and the two-year-old daughter. The automatism of the gestures of material life and its suspension in small events.

They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table laid. It would be the beginning of a long day at work. The daily ritual of a house inhabited by a mother and the two-year-old daughter. The automatism of the gestures of material life and its suspension in small events.

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs into a coming of middle age story.

"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."