Two millennials: Richard, a film studies student, and Ethan, a music producer preparing to launch his own startup—share a flat in Macau with a cherished washing machine, affectionately named R3D2. When they suddenly need to dispose of it, though, the two Westerners embark on a nine-minute journey of desperation, misdemeanors, and language barriers that folds the history of Macau into a dryly funny take on the myth of Sisyphus.
Professor Antena
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
Tio Cabaça
"Que haverá para além do horizonte? O que será a vida e a morte na profundidade dos mares? O que fomos antes e o que seremos depois da morte? E essa voz que canta, quem será? Donde virá? Que só vem para nos confundir e perder..." Este 5º episódio da série "Contos Fantásticos" foi inspirado na obra de Júlio Dinís.
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Lehrer
D. Rodrigo
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Marques
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
The Lord of the Lands
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
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.
Álvaro Silvestre
Adaptação cinematográfica do romance homónimo de Carlos de Oliveira. Encena um Portugal rural desencantado, sombrio e enclausurado, no final da década de 1960, e que um crime brutal vem abalar.
Inácio
After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who vows to escape the town's crushing poverty even if she has to steal.
Faial
No passado século XIX, em ilha deserta do Atlântico, dá-se o encontro entre Pierre Duchemin, jovem marinheiro dum barco francês, e Hunila, solitária desde a morte do marido, Filipe, e do irmão, que exploravam os parcos recursos da pesca à tartaruga. Esta relação paradisíaca terá, porém, um fim e, recolhida por um veleiro português, em 1830, Hunila conta a sua história.
Dr. Valença
João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.
