Rafael Gonçalves Cardoso

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.

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.

Beatriz y Henrique se conocen, se enamoran y se casan cuando ella tiene 21 años. Henrique es un oficial de la marina y se embarca en el mar durante una temporada. Beatriz queda a cargo de sus seis hijos en casa. Un día muere de forma totalmente inesperada. Su hijo mayor es Jacinto, que desde la infancia ha soñado con convertirse en un pájaro. Jacinto es el padre de la directora Catarina Vasconcelos, cuya madre también falleció cuando ella tenía 17 años. Tras su muerte, Catarina empezó a trabajar en un proyecto llamado "La metamorfosis de los pájaros".

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water - she dreams of being a fish. One day her daughter comes across her disappearance and reconstructs, through the memory of her gestures and meetings with her mother, a possible explanation for her escape.

Un giallo postmoderno que secuestra nuestras mentes y sentidos para introducirnos en el mundo de Candide, un imperturbable y seductor asesino en serie que una noche se topa con una mujer que acaba de saltar de un edificio y que le pide un último beso antes de morir. Instante que capta una cámara y que le convierte en un fenómeno en las redes, empezando así una huida hacia adelante de incierto fin. Un film de imaginario subversivo, fetichista y surrealista de Carlos Conceição ("Serpentário") una de las voces más excitantes del cine portugués contemporáneo, con cameo de Leonor Silveira, actriz icónica del cine de Oliveira.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

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.

A young sound director has a task. Rafael must record a crucial sound for a film. With his headphones on he scans the city of Lisbon, looking and listening for this elusive sonic eccentricity – his journey made harder by all sorts of disruptive noises.

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias “Djon África,” born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, “a player and a crook.” His father, whom he never even knew! This intriguing discovery makes him change tack. Particularly when his grandmother, who always took care of him, finally tells him how his father was in prison; how sad Miguel was as a toddler when he couldn't see him; how his father was banished to Cape Verde. Miguel goes there to visit him. Who is this man?

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in each other the serenity, the silence and the time they lost in the flowing water of the river.

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near Alberto’s residence, disturbing his everyday life and awakening his forgotten desire for independence and freedom.

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise. Living in a world of role play, Miguel spends all his time playing with his sister Clara. They have a close bond that is made even more intense by Clara's illness. Yet despite all his efforts, Miguel senses that there's something missing in Clara's life that he cannot give her. Time is running out, and her health is deteriorating. One evening, he decides to approach a young man.