Bastos
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
Le patron du Père Tranquille
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
Restaurant Proprietor
ロンドン。英国の新首相デヴィッドは着任早々、秘書のナタリーに一目ぼれ。最愛の妻を亡くしたダニエルは、妻の連れ子から恋に悩んでいると明かされる。作家ジェイミーは、言葉が通じないポルトガル人のメイドに好意を。3人の子どもがいるハリーとカレンの夫妻だが、ハリーは会社の若い部下と浮気をしていた。ハリーの会社に勤めるサラは入社以来ずっとある同僚に片思い中などなど、人々はさまざまな想いを胸に聖夜を迎えていく。
Antunes
When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Polícia
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
