José Manuel Mendes

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, because soon they will lose their children. They have only two days left to find them, before their parents join them.

포르투갈어로 ‘사우다지(saudade)’는 사랑하는 사람의 부재 시 느끼는 상대를 향한 갈망이자, 아픈 기억이 주는 행복한 느낌을 뜻한다. 변신은 섬세한 시각적 아름다움과 함께 이 번역할 수 없는 단어, 사우다지가 가득한 한 가족의 내밀한 이야기를 들려준다. 열일곱에 어머니를 잃은 감독은 서른여섯 살에 갑작스럽게 어머니를 잃은 아버지를 떠올리며, 자신이 만나지 못한 할머니의 형상을 찾아 허구와 실제가 혼합된 영화를 만들었다. 편지를 읽는 목소리들을 통해 전해지는 가족의 연대기는 한 편의 동화같이 사랑하는 이의 상실이라는 불행뿐만 아니라 가족 안에 행복했던 순간을 드러낸다.

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad ! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

늦은 밤, 사진작가 아이작은 결혼 후 며칠 만에 죽어 버린 딸 안젤리카의 마지막 사진을 찍어달라는 갑작스러운 부탁을 받는다. 안젤리카의 시신을 본 아이작은 그녀의 미모에 압도되는데, 그가 카메라 렌즈를 통해 본 그녀는 마치 살아있는 듯하다. 안젤리카와 사랑에 빠진 아이작은 밤낮으로 그녀와의 만남을 이어간다. 제작 당시 이미 100세를 넘겼던 올리베이라는 사진을 통해 예술에 대해 성찰하고, 아름다운 환영들 사이에서 삶과 죽음의 경계, 현실과 초현실의 경계를 유유히 거닌다. 초안은 1946년에, 각본은 1952년에 썼으며, 이후 현대적인 요소들을 가미했다고 한다. (2017년 영화의 전당) 사진사 이작은 한밤중에 한 집안의 부름을 받고 죽은 안젤리카의 사진을 찍다 그녀에게 반해 버린 이작은 렌즈와 사진-이미지 속에서 살아나는 그녀에게서 헤어나지 못하게 되는데…. 포르투갈의 노장 올리베이라 감독의 사랑과 예술에 관한 우화. (2011년 제12회 전주국제영화제)

19세기 작가 카밀루 카스텔루 브랑쿠의 소설을 바탕으로 만들어진 대서사시. 상영 시간 동안 스토리가 계속 확장되는 독특한 형식의 작품이다.

Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a young lad in an underpass, only to be threatened with a break-up the following morning. Passive and submissive roles are tackled and tugged in gay graffiti tale VANDALS and Icelandic grapple-fest WRESTLING, while POSTMORTEM, MY NAME IS LOVE, and Iris Prize-winner STEAM look at promising encounters that turn awry. Rounding out the collection are HEIKO, an alternative ode to foot fetishes, BREATH where 12-year-old Erik swims out to sea to make a daring move on his best friend's father, and the crème de la crème from this collection TREVOR, which won multiple prestigious awards from Sundance, Berlinale, and even The Academy Awards (Oscar) for Best Short Film.

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy.

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.