Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be taking. She misses her dead husband, who manifests himself in the body of a living friend, and gets involved in her daily activities. Through these characters, Diogo Costa Amarante constructs a fascinating portrait of lives lived while desires remain unrealised.
Writer
A história de Luizinha, uma menina nascida numa família muito pobre que é entregue pelo pai a António, o homem mais rico da cidade, para que este a crie. Mas a morte da esposa leva António a casar pela segunda vez com Berta e depressa se percebe que a grande casa familiar é demasiado pequena para albergar Luizinha e a madrasta. No auge do conflito, António defende a filha e Berta abre-lhe um processo de divórcio litigioso. Pouco depois, aparece morta e António é acusado de homicídio. Mas a verdade que o tribunal procura desvendar poderá não ser a mais óbvia.
Director
A história de Luizinha, uma menina nascida numa família muito pobre que é entregue pelo pai a António, o homem mais rico da cidade, para que este a crie. Mas a morte da esposa leva António a casar pela segunda vez com Berta e depressa se percebe que a grande casa familiar é demasiado pequena para albergar Luizinha e a madrasta. No auge do conflito, António defende a filha e Berta abre-lhe um processo de divórcio litigioso. Pouco depois, aparece morta e António é acusado de homicídio. Mas a verdade que o tribunal procura desvendar poderá não ser a mais óbvia.
Um hotel junto à costa norte de Portugal, acolhe os seus clientes, num fim de semana. Um homem vive dividido entre a atenção a dar à sua mulher e o espaço que ocupa a sua mãe no meio deles. Uma mãe promove o casamento da filha para facilitar a sua relação amorosa com o genro. Outra mãe vive através da filha, impedindo-a de tomar as suas próprias decisões. Três núcleos familiares em final de ciclo de aceitação.
Piedade
Num hotel familiar junto à costa norte de Portugal, vivem várias mulheres da mesma família de gerações diferentes. Numa relação envenenada pela amargura tentam sobreviver no hotel em decadência. A chegada inesperada de uma neta a este espaço claustrofóbico provoca perturbação e o avivar de ódios latentes e rancores acumulados.
Mãe Maria
António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.
Rata de sacristia
On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two young men devoted to love and desire, and the will to change the status quo.
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
Josefina Antunes
Josefina viaja para a região do Douro, em Portugal, para tomar conta do sobrinho Alexandre. Ela se dedica ao garoto, que foi abandonado pela mãe. Mas Alexandre acaba de chegar à adolescência e quer namorar. O jovem quer afirmar sua independência, o que acaba gerando um embate com a tia. Ele se aproxima da mãe, Ângela, que reaparece para reclamar sua partilha da herança. No entanto, a dedicação de Josefina é muito forte para ser esquecida.
Director of Photography
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.
Director
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.
Sónia Matamouros
Diamantino, o grande astro mundial do futebol, perde seu toque especial e termina sua carreira em desgraça. Em busca de um novo objetivo, o ícone internacional embarca em uma odisseia delirante onde enfrenta o neofascismo, a crise dos refugiados, a modificação genética e a caça à fonte do gênio.
Um filme sobre a sociedade portuguesa metropolitana e ultramarina no início da década de 60, à boleia da história de um jovem futebolista moçambicano chamado Eusébio, atleta predestinado do Sporting Clube Lourenço Marques, que se vê cobiçado e contratado pelo clube rival, o Benfica. Chantagem, tentativas de rapto, envolvimento de ministros, delírio nos jornais e promessas milionárias fazem da história da transferência do futebolista - um miúdo que nunca ninguém vira jogar - uma saga desenrolada em dois continentes. Termina quando a lenda começa : com a estreia de Eusébio na Luz.
Writer
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.
Director of Photography
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.
Director
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.
Céu
A viagem de 11 mulheres enquanto vão em peregrinação de Bragança a Fátima.
Screenplay
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.
Director
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.
(voice)
When six-year-old Frederico finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating, he is unable to sleep that night. The next day, his mother asks the teacher once again: Must children always be told the truth? Always?
Director
A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.
Susana
"Bom dia menina Rosa!" é como arranca o "O Pátio das Cantigas" onde mora a linda balconista Rosa e os seus dois pretendentes: Narciso, um guia turístico poliglota que trabalha noite e dia… e o Evaristo, dono da mercearia gourmet, pessoa de génio agreste e pai da menina Celeste, aspirante a artista de telenovela. Já não tarda o Santo António, e eis o caso nunca visto das tentações do demónio do pátio do Evaristo.
Clara
The story of a couple who can not get rid of the pain of losing a daughter, until one night that they are confronted with the dark and sinister paths of guilt and penance.
In Caxinas, a fishing neighborhood in Vila do Conde, a city on the north of Portugal, the relationship between the fishermen and their wives is based on vital trust and reciprocal and absolute dependence, in order to assure their families survival.
Laura
Pedro and Laura are a modern couple and, for all friends, exemplary. Pedro is a young and successful manager who runs a parent company and has succeeded in a more successful case. Your wife, Laura, is also an architect. He has fun friends with whom he usually dines, goes out at night and goes on vacation together. Married five years ago, it's time to have a child. Modern and practical as they are, they have everything very well planned: they already know to whom daycare or child, in which private school the primary studies are shown, until the course is used when they grow up. In addition, there are some who have a child who is not prevented from living as always independent, but they do not just want to become "the parents of ...".
Ivete
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Violante
Violante, a young and beautiful catholic nun, is facing a few marital issues with her husband Jesus Christ - who stalks her through the dark corners of a decaying convent and seeks to punish her for her (alleged) sins. In a dark stormy night they struggle to win each other to their personal points of view. She quotes the bible in terms of unconditional love - He does the same in terms of capital punishment. But are His manly insecurities based on solid grounds? After escaping His jealous rage, the nun lurks through the dark alleys and the bars like a vampire. Doomed to loneliness, all she wants is a Man. And who can this Man be?
Lúcia
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.
Conceição
Adaptação do romance de Mia Couto 'Um Rio Chamado Tempo, Uma Casa Chamada Terra'. Quando a pá do coveiro se quis enterrar na terra para tapar a cova da sepultura de Dito Mariano, embateu numa superfície inexpugnável e rija como aço. A tempestade raiou no céu e um pasmo trespassou os elementos da família presentes no enterro. De quem seria a culpa da terra não abrir? A discórdia eclode entre as mulheres. Dulcineusa, a matriarca da família, sentencia: \"A terra não se abre porque há segredo por desfazer\".
Prostitute
«Tudo o que de bem ou de mal nos acontece "cá em baixo", está escrito "lá em cima". É a frase preferida de Tiago (tradução de Jaques, porque vem dos santos), motorista de condição, para justificar todas as suas surpreendentes ações, quando através de um estranho Portugal conduz o seu patrão na delirante e interminável história dos seus amores.
Rute
A disturbing movie about the portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Mariana
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.
