Two millennials: Richard, a film studies student, and Ethan, a music producer preparing to launch his own startup—share a flat in Macau with a cherished washing machine, affectionately named R3D2. When they suddenly need to dispose of it, though, the two Westerners embark on a nine-minute journey of desperation, misdemeanors, and language barriers that folds the history of Macau into a dryly funny take on the myth of Sisyphus.
Professor Antena
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
Tio Cabaça
Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Lehrer
D. Rodrigo
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Marques
강박적이고 이기적인 사랑의 광기를 절제된 형식 속에 밀어붙이는 극단의 러브스토리. 브라질의 독립으로 포르투갈 국정이 불안한 시절, 호세 아우구스토와 카밀로는 프란시스카를 두고 삼각관계를 이룬다. 프란시스카는 귀족 호세 아우구스토와 결혼하지만 정작 그의 사랑은 고문에 가까운 치기 어린 것으로 드러난다.
Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
The Lord of the Lands
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
Álvaro Silvestre
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
Inácio
포르투갈 식민지 전쟁에 참전했던 한 군인이 자신의 고향인 작은 어촌 마을로 돌아온다. 그러나 그가 떠나 있던 동안 마을의 많은 것이 변했고, 군인은 그런 환경에 쉽게 적응하지 못한다. 올리베이라의 에 조감독으로 참여했던 파울로 로샤 감독이 다큐멘터리적 방법론을 사용해 만든 독특한 극 영화.
Faial
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
Dr. Valença
João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.
