José Airosa

A trágica história das muitas vidas do Padre Dinis, das suas origens sombrias e das suas obras piedosas, e dos diferentes destinos de todos aqueles que, presos numa sinistra teia de amor, ódio e crime, se cruzam com ele ao longo de anos de aventuras e infortúnios na convulsa Europa do final do século 18.

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it affects not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him.

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he decided to send his daughter, Adriana, to the mainland to form a family by natural methods.

Francisco, comporta-te! Bem sei que hoje fazes 30 anos, que é Carnaval e que vestes de cowboy na festa do colégio, cercado por miúdos que detestas.

No final dos anos 1960 Evita chega a Moçambique para casar com Luís, um estudante de matemática que ali cumpre o serviço militar. Evita rapidamente se apercebe de que Luís já não é o mesmo. Perturbado pela guerra, transformou-se num triste imitador do seu capitão, Forza Leal. Perdida num mundo que não é o seu, Evita apercebe-se da violência de um tempo colonial à beira do fim. Um tempo de guerra, de perda e de culpa.

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.

Nourished by pain, it corrupts the intimacy of a couple that has lost their child. The mother, Gracinda Nave, refuses to speak, transforming their home in a place of mourning where memories shatter lovers, ruining the relation with her husband, José Airosa. The original soundtrack is, in itself, a metaphor of how one can escape from grief, in a way the final duet symbolizes everything unsaid between them, through out the film. The director, Margarida Leitão, employs the symbology of a balloon, a puzzle and some drawings to create little flashes of a past filled with colour. A chromatic journey across the instants of another life when we could hear a child's laughter and the house was filled with joy. But now, the house is an empty space where the two lovers drift apart.

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.

Um retrato da Revolução dos Cravos, que mudou a história portuguesa na década de 70. A realizadora e actriz Maria de Medeiros faz um retrato pessoal e nostálgico dos episódios mais marcantes do 25 de abril.

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.

Portugal, Julho de 1936. A ditadura de Salazar está consolidada e controla totalmente o país. Um grupo de adolescentes passa as férias de verão na Figueira da Foz. Do outro lado da fronteira começou a Guerra Civil da Espanha e, apesar da distância, a sua violência vai repercutir na vida destes jovens, lançando-os num turbilhão de intrigas políticas e paixões desencontradas que marcará tragicamente a sua passagem para a idade adulta.