João Arrais

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.

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.

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.

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

Portugal, 1917. Tres niños afirman haber visto a la Virgen María en Fátima. Sus revelaciones enfurecen al Gobierno y a la Iglesia que intentan obligarles a retractarse de su historia. Pero a medida que se extiende la noticia de su profecía, miles de peregrinos acuden a Fátima con la esperanza de presenciar un milagro. Lo que allí experimentarán cambiará sus vidas para siempre.

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.

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.

Cartas da Guerra está basada en un libro del renombrado autor portugués António Lobo Antunes. La novela epistolar, publicada en 2005, reúne las cartas que un joven soldado envió a su mujer desde Angola entre 1971 y 1973, durante la Guerra Colonial. Al igual que el propio Lobo Antunes, el joven soldado es médico y escritor en ciernes.

T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."

An elderly woman in a wheelchair and a hormone driven teenage boy arrive to a beach cabin where, through rare moments of lucidity, she will persuade him to kill her.

Narra la historia de la ocupación de Portugal por las tropas napoleónicas a principios del siglo XIX. Realizado por Valeria Sarmiento, la viuda y editora de los filmes de Raúl Ruiz, partiendo de un proyecto póstumo de su marido.

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

La trágica historia de las numerosas vidas del padre Dinis, sus oscuros orígenes y sus piadosas obras, y los diferentes destinos de todos aquellos que, atrapados en una siniestra red de amor, odio y crimen, se cruzan con él a través de años de aventuras y desgracias en la convulsa Europa de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX.

A new film from Bruno Gascon.