Luis Correia

A plan to avoid job losses at a factory in 1976 becomes the starting point for an incisive account of our current and future economic situation.

As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn to live without money in a foreign city. On the edge of the law, the two have to grow up and become women. When the problems are already overwhelming, news comes that makes them unbearable. This blow, however, will give them the push to decide their futures: Alda is going to France and Maria back to Angola in search of her roots.

João Bénard da Costa, diretor do Arquivo Nacional de Cinema de Portugal [falecido em 2009], entrevista o reitor de diretores de cinema contemporâneos [então com 96 anos]. Dois humanistas de diferentes origens filosóficas, com suas vidas longas e inteiras dedicadas à cultura em geral (música, pintura, literatura) e ao cinema em particular, discutem livremente, às vezes com hesitação, o poder do diretor como criador ou mágico, a filosofia além de cenas particulares em filmes clássicos, técnica de filme, a importância da cor, som e música para filmes, arte versus entretenimento e muito mais. A conversa ocorre em uma sala de museu, em frente a "A Anunciação" (uma pintura a óleo de 1510 por João Vaz, um artista português), que acaba levando a uma discussão sobre 'Leonardo da Vinci' e a relação entre uma tendência mestre-setter e seus discípulos.

An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".

In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelagos. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became the BATUQUE: a music form, performed mostly by women, both singers and dancers. The singers, repeat very strong lyrics, sitting in a circle and beating the rhythms with their hands on a piece of cloth between their legs. While one woman performs a very sensual dance with her hips in the middle of the circle. During the colonial era, it has been strongly forbidden but it remained alive in clandestinity. The group Raiz de Tambarina, one of the oldest groups of Batuque on Santiago island, is composed of ordinary people, saleswomen, fish merchants, drivers... Through their every day life and performances we discover Cape Verde today and their passion for the Batuque.

Ela tem dezenove anos, o nome dela é Rita. Ela trabalha na perfumaria do shopping. Hoje ela vai se casar. Ela vai ao cabeleireiro. Terremoto. Ela de repente decide cortar o cabelo curto. Paulo, seu noivo, está esperando na prefeitura.

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection. Shown here are his techniques, themes, and obcessions developed for over two decades, as well as its ramifications into different supports such as Video, Photography, literature, taking the rare oportunity granted by a full retrospective of his work at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, including the works dispersed through International collections.

Peça teatral sobre o escritor Wenceslau de Moraes. O filme é baseado no espectáculo Portugaru-San do Teatro Maizum, encenado por Silvina Pereira, com uma colagem de textos de Wenceslau de Moraes.

Peça teatral sobre o escritor Wenceslau de Moraes. O filme é baseado no espectáculo Portugaru-San do Teatro Maizum, encenado por Silvina Pereira, com uma colagem de textos de Wenceslau de Moraes.