António Escudeiro

On April 25, 1974 the iconoclastic Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha was in Portugal. There, he joined the collective collective film "As Armas e o Povo". With his foreign and peculiar look, he broke the rules of conventional filmmaking.

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

Numa noite de insônia de 1978, Francisco e Rita se encontram para relembrar João, um amigo de infância assassinado recentemente. João pertencera a um grupo subversivo de esquerda durante a ditadura e era produtor de cinema, que estava filmando uma adaptação do drama de Alexandre Herculano, O Bobo.

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes' time are set side by side with A ilha dos amores and with de Moraes' writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.

Um dos maiores êxitos comerciais da história do cinema português e que ultrapassou os 100 000 espectadores. A acção decorre em Portugal no ano de 1976. Kilas é amante de uma artista de variedades, Pepsi-Rita, à custa de quem vive, em casa da Madrinha. Esperto, Kilas lidera um grupo de marginais, contratados por um enigmático Major para vigiarem um prédio onde vão reunir-se personalidades “suspeitas”. Quando tal acontece, e alertado o Major, uma bomba explode na casa. Alarmado, Kilas procura desligar-se, mas o seu destino está já marcado por uma rivalidade passional.

Mário Viegas encarna o herdeiro dos Teles de Midões, a dinastia que reinava sobre as Berlengas quando foi traída por Afonso Henriques e passou a fazer parte do Reino. O filme mostra como os Teles de Midões, ao longo de séculos e em momentos cruciais da história portuguesa, tudo fizeram para recuperar a independência do arquipélago, mas foram sempre ultrapassados pelos acontecimentos. Tal como viria a acontecer no século XX, quando a mais recente tentativa termina com o herdeiro encerrado num manicómio.

Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These images and sounds were recorded there in 1977 between the 16th and the 29th of August. To its inhabitants we would like to express our thanks in the making of this film.

A uma greve de operários agrícolas no Alentejo, a polícia associa elementos de um grupo de teatro ambulante. A acção decorre no espaço aberto e agreste da charneca. Com a conivência de Lianor, a trupe penetra no palácio de D. Gonçalo, velho aristocrata. O fidalgo vive obcecado por visões de grandes feitos passados, num universo de fantasmas. Acabam os malteses por descobrir o seu tesouro: uma caixa cheia de carabinas e munições. Durante a carga policial que se segue, enfrentam os agentes de armas na mão. Nos horizontes, só a negra África se avista.

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.