Raul Atalaia

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.

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?

크리스마스를 앞둔 런던, 다우닝가에 둥지를 튼 총리는 식음료 담당자 나탈리에게 호감을 가지며, 작가 제이미는 파출부 오렐리아에게 매력을 느낀다. 대니얼은 아내를 잃은 슬픔에 빠져 있고, 양아들 샘은 미국에서 온 조안나에게 잘 보이려고 고민 중이며, 총리의 여동생 캐런은 남편의 부정을 눈치챈다. 새라는 동료 칼을 짝사랑하며, 친구 피터와 줄리엣의 결혼을 접하는 마크의 표정은 우울하다. 여기에 마약중독에서 빠져나온 록 가수 빌리 맥, 미국 여자들과 즐기기 위해 미국행을 결심하는 콜린 등이 뒤얽히며 사랑의 갖가지 모습이 펼쳐진다.

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

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...