António Fonseca

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.

On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to forceher husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, intoCourt. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.

Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 1950. En el conservador hogar de la familia Gusmão, Eurídice y Guida son dos hermanas inseparables que se apoyan mutuamente. Si Guida puede compartir con su hermana menor los detalles de sus aventuras románticas, Eurídice encuentra en su hermana mayor el aliento que necesita para perseguir su sueño de convertirse en pianista profesional.

The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.

Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with José, a married man who became her most faithful client but who couldn't help her to escape the hard life. Today this old prostitute continues showing off her body through the long city's nights, though the clients are almost gone. José is still there, but he failed at what she desired the most: a son. In a very intimate and raw portray of a woman, MARIA disclosures how love and getting older can feels like.

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it becomes fierce, and like death, she cannot look it in the eye - only to the shadows around her

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...

George, una joven carismática y aventurera, nacida en el seno de una vieja familia católica, se enamora siendo adolescente de una profesora suya llamada Sybil. Destrozada por el posterior suicidio de su amante unos años después, George se sume en un emocionante y temerario viaje a las profundidades de la vida nocturna de Pigalle a principios de los sesenta. Conoce a Odete, una mujer rica bastante mayor que ella, que aún conserva su atractivo. Esta le ofrece dinero y regalos a cambio de sexo, y George no tarda en convertirse en Gigola, reservada solo para mujeres.

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.

Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?

Aunque Antonio pertenece a una rica familia y José es hijo de la sirvienta, han compartido su infancia bajo la protectora mirada de la criada, atenta a sus mínimos gestos. Con el paso de los años el amor estrechará los lazos entre ellos dos: Antonio se casa con Camila, de la cual José siempre ha estado enamorado, y tiene por amante a la peligrosa Vanessa, socia de José en oscuros e inconfesables negocios. El diablo interviene y se burla cruelmente de la criada que siempre ha intentado en vano conjurar la mala suerte. La trama de estos cuatro destinos entrecruzados pasará por las llamas del infierno.

Un jeep se desplaza lentamente a través del mercado, en el centro de Maputo. Al volante se encuentra Rui Pedro, un hombre de mediana edad que no parece muy preocupado por lo que ocurre en torno a él. Conduce a través de la ciudad, pasa por los suburbios y alcanza un camino solitario que lo conduce a un caserío abandonado. En ese paraje mozambiqueño, a la vera de un río misterioso, Rui Pedro había pasado sus primeros años cuando la dominación colonial estaba llegando a su fin y se enfrentó con la trágica e inevitable destrucción de su infancia. Hijo de colonizadores portugueses, su mejor amiga era Ana, una niña negra ahijada de su madre. Allí, por desgracia, tuvo que aprender a reconocer y a convivir con dos realidades bien diferentes –la europea y la africana–, a primera vista irreconciliables. (FILMAFFINITY)

A director is trying to stage the play “The Jew of Linz”, but his dementia and delirium can’t take the production past rehearsals. The venue cancels the play and the director and his leading man go on an odyssey where they can’t distinguish life from fiction.

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...