Rita Durão

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her thesis on “Reality in Cinema”. Maria has an unlimited confidence in what is visible. Her candour and her naivety allow her to see the bright side of life – such as the beauty of the landscape and the authenticity of the place, or what’s left of it. But when Maria enters the final manor house on her list, she soon realises that something is going on in this house that is not as innocent as it first seemed. The manor is truly a house of horrors.

Paul y Adèle fueron amantes y se separaron pero siguen siendo buenos amigos, un año después todo parece alejarlos. La clave de Mi bemol puede ser la clave de la verdadera amistad, pero es Mozart quien los separa...

En algún momento del Medioevo tardío, el noble Herren von Ketten (Marcello Urgeghe), en pleno conflicto con el Episcopado de Trento, busca matrimonio en un país lejano, Portugal. Su esposa será una mujer portuguesa (Clara Riedenstein) que se instalará en el castillo de los von Ketten al norte de Italia. Recluida allí, con su esposo en la guerra, quedará embarazada de su primer hijo. Su vida transcurrirá entre criados, lecturas, juegos con un cachorro de lobo y el aprendizaje de algunos oficios manuales. Será un universo pautado por el ritmo masculino y en el que las mujeres deben parir, criar y esperar.

Explore hidden desires on a sleepover, fall in love with the handyman and be seduced by a stranger on the beach as you discover why Love Is the Drug. Boys On Film 17 includes nine complete films: Nicholas Colia's "Alex And The Handyman" starring Keaton Nigel Cooke, Aaron Profumo, and Hogan Gorman; Dawid Ullgren's "Mr. Sugar Daddy" starring Bengt C.W. Carlsson and Aleksandar Gajic; Brendon McDonall's "Spoilers" starring James Peake and Tom Mumford; André D. Chambers's "Tellin' Dad" starring Carl Loughlin, Ricky Tomlinson, and Michael Byron; Eyal Resh's "Boys" starring Wyatt Griswold and Pearce Joza; Martin Edralin's "Hole" starring Ken Harrower and Sebastian Deery; Lorelei Pepi's animated "Happy & Gay"; André Santos and Marco Leão's "Pedro" starring Filipe Abreu and Rita Durão; and Anthony Schatteman's "Kiss Me Softly" starring Ezra Fieremans, Marijke Pinoy, and Marc Van Eeghem.

Correspondências cuenta la historia de dos poetas protugueses de la segunda década del pasado siglo, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen y Jorge Sena, que se intercambian cartas, ya que el segundo de ellos se encuentra en el exilio.

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.

Adaptación libre y cinematográfica de uno de los cuentos más famosos del francés Barbey d´Aureville (1808-1889), incluido en el libro Les Diaboliques. Roberto es uno de esos hombres para los que la simulación es todo un arte. Para unos, se trata de un caballero refinado; para otros un libertino. En cualquier caso, Roberto es un hombre sumido en el más profundo de los aburrimientos, ya que ha agotado y satisfecho todos los placeres de la vida. Hasta que conoce a una cortesana que le introduce en una historia de amor verdadero, pero también de pasados imperfectos.

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors. After all, they all ask the same question: where does happiness lies?

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.

Una historia sobre el arte y los hombres cultos, y sobre como su arte a arte y su cultura se revelan inútiles ante las duras realidades de la vida del siglo XX.

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.

Una historia de bigamia y doble traición donde los personajes centrales son Don Alfonso III y una mora, de quien se enamoró. El rey que completó la reconquista del territorio portugués, traiciona a su mujer y la mora traiciona a su padre.

An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a curious and somewhat moving friendship between the child and a Russian migrant worker who in a certain way replaces his estranged father.

Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give things to young, attractive and good-natured people, and they exploit this shamelessly. Francisco, a neighbour of theirs, has given up on life. He's abandoned his wife and child to take refuge far from those who might hurt him ; in effect dying. He's ashamed of this, and never ever looks at anyone. This has given him, amongst the women of the neighbourhood, the reputation of being able to tell, just by looking at a couple, how long they'll stay together. The sudden news of the death of his much loved wife, upsets Francisco's routine.

Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa is charming and careless, living the bohemian life. His encounters are numerous, mostly with feminine characters, until he gets attached to an old and eccentric orchestra conductor who becomes a kind of father figure.

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.

Amanece en la mañana del 25 de Abril de 1974, cuando Marco, un joven italiano veinteañero y su amigo portugués, Víctor, dejan París en un Citröen de color amarillo. Su destino es Lisboa que, esa misma noche, se ha liberado de una de las dictaduras más duraderas. El deseo de tomar parte en un acontecimiento histórico, que ocurre una vez en la vida, más el entusiasmo de hacer un viaje juntos y la curiosidad de conocer diferentes lugares y gentes, arrastran a estos dos jóvenes a su nueva aventura. Pero la aventura no es está completa sin Claire, que fue la novia de Víctor en sus años estudiantiles de París. Claire está deseando tomar unas pequeñas vacaciones lejos de su rutina, de su marido y de su hijo. El trío compartirá experiencias inolvidables. El mítico Citröen, los maravillosos paisajes que atraviesan, las fronteras que cruzan, los numerosos encuentros que surgen en la carretera, la banda sonora que ofrece la radio: éstos son los ingredientes de un viaje que nunca olvidarán

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.

The story of a family of bull fighters.

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.

En Portugal, la noche del 24 al 25 de abril de 1974, la radio difunde una canción prohibida: Grândola Vila Morena. Podría tratarse de la insumisión de un periodista rebelde, pero es de hecho la señal programada de un golpe de Estado militar que cambiará la cara de este pequeño país afligido por décadas de arcaísmo y el destino de territorios inmensos en África. Al sonido de la voz del poeta José Alfonso, las tropas insurrectas toman los cuarteles. A las tres de la mañana, marchan sobre Lisboa. Es la Revolución de los Claveles.

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town looking for the right woman. But when found, she throws herself from a balcony. Then comes a dance, as in a musical, and an obvious surprise... A movie about beauty and glory that has more love stories.

En un viejo parque helado y solitario, dos sombras se encuentran: la de Dios y la de un Mensajero. Este le entrega al vagabundo una maleta repleta de dinero. En un lago cercano, la joven Joana está a punto de ahogarse; Joao le salva la vida y la conduce, desvanecida, a un convento de monjas. Después vuelve al parque a recuperar la maleta y su precioso contenido: por suerte, nadie ha tocado nada

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.