Nuno Carvalho

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.

Maria começa a ter sinais de pertencer a outro lugar: surgem escamas na pele, raízes nas pernas, e ela ouve o som da água - sonha ser peixe. Um dia a sua filha depara-se com o seu desaparecimento e reconstruirá, pela memória dos gestos e desencontros, uma possível explicação para a sua fuga.

The failed coup of 1961 that tried to overthrew the Fascist Regime in Portugal.

A visit to the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, Ukraine.

O filme reinterpreta um famoso mito português que explora a vida da figura religiosa de Santo Antônio.

Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old Bruno’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force Bruno to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister Érica.

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.

Anajara regressa do trabalho ao amanhecer. Hoje não poderá deixar Iuri na escola. A setenta quilómetros de casa, Allison espera pela mulher e o filho. Hoje é dia de visita na prisão de Santarém.

Seguindo as tradições portuguesas de 13 de junho — quando os enamorados ofertam a Santo Antônio um vaso de manjericão como prova de seu amor — um grupo de jovens ocupam as ruas tomados por uma estranha letargia.

Seguindo as tradições portuguesas de 13 de junho — quando os enamorados ofertam a Santo Antônio um vaso de manjericão como prova de seu amor — um grupo de jovens ocupam as ruas tomados por uma estranha letargia.

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

Side Effects is the story of a woman who's not afraid to believe that happiness is not only possible but the only truth to be achieved. A woman who won't give up believing in people. A woman who will fight against all adversities in order to let others not to give up a life worth living. Nowadays, the desire for happiness is a real heroic act.

The film tells the story of a sister and a brother, Inês and Rafael. Since the divorce of their parents, their family never saw Rafael again. Inês runs away from home looking for him when she is told he is back at the Guincho Beach and surfing again. Rafael is an ex-surf champion who everyday gets himself inside the most dangerous waves to test the limits of his life. When the two brothers meet, Guincho makes them come together in a promise of paradise on earth, as it was the last place where their family lived together and in happiness. But Inês is surprised one day when she finds her brother looking fixedly to the Serra de Sintra mountain range, where the Convent of the Capuchos, which once was his refuge, is. She fears having brought him back the memories of the separation of their parents. Rafael is in a crisis of faith. When one day he disappears, Inês knows he went back to the convent, and she starts doing what she can to bring him back to her.

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.

In one afternoon Rafael’s paradise becomes a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

In one afternoon Rafael’s paradise becomes a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

A história do último inverno da vida de Tonia, uma veterana do espectáculo de travesti lisboeta. Enquanto Tonia luta contra a dependência da heroína de Rosário, o seu namorado heterosexual, o mundo à sua volta implode: o espectáculo de travesti agoniza, a concorrência de artistas mais novas ameaça o seu estatuto de vedeta. Pressionada por Rosário a dar o último passo para assumir a sua identidade feminina, a mudança de sexo que a irá transformar numa mulher, Tonia luta contra as suas mais profundas convicções religiosas. Se por um lado quer ser a mulher que Rosário deseja, por outro sabe que perante Deus nunca poderá ser essa mulher.

Diana é uma adolescente que procura o amor verdadeiro, o tipo de amor que ela reconhece no seu pai, Gabriel, no relacionamento deste com a madrasta, Madalena. No entanto, Diana descobre que Madalena tem um amante, Miguel, e que ela está prestes a abandonar o seu pai por ele. Gabriel cai em depressão e ao vê-lo nesse estado, Diana decide tentar separar Madalena de Miguel. No entanto, durante os seus esforços, Diana encontra o que ela queria, mas no homem que ela mais odeia...

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?

China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with iniquity and purgatory is a kindergarten...

O cruzamento de um viagem pessoal com o trágico curso da história.

O cruzamento de um viagem pessoal com o trágico curso da história.

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

Odete, ajudante de supermercado em Lisboa, sonha em ser mãe. No entanto, quando ela revela seu desejo ao namorado, ele termina o relacionamento. Isto não impede Odete de ficar cada vez mais obcecada com a ideia da maternidade. Em outro ponto da cidade, o amor entre Rui e Pedro é interrompido quando este morre em um acidente de carro. Sozinho, Rui começa a perder a vontade de viver. Mas, estranhamente, o fantasma de Pedro parece querer unir Odete e Rui para realizar o sonho de uma e terminar com a desesperança do outro.

Odete, ajudante de supermercado em Lisboa, sonha em ser mãe. No entanto, quando ela revela seu desejo ao namorado, ele termina o relacionamento. Isto não impede Odete de ficar cada vez mais obcecada com a ideia da maternidade. Em outro ponto da cidade, o amor entre Rui e Pedro é interrompido quando este morre em um acidente de carro. Sozinho, Rui começa a perder a vontade de viver. Mas, estranhamente, o fantasma de Pedro parece querer unir Odete e Rui para realizar o sonho de uma e terminar com a desesperança do outro.

Odete, ajudante de supermercado em Lisboa, sonha em ser mãe. No entanto, quando ela revela seu desejo ao namorado, ele termina o relacionamento. Isto não impede Odete de ficar cada vez mais obcecada com a ideia da maternidade. Em outro ponto da cidade, o amor entre Rui e Pedro é interrompido quando este morre em um acidente de carro. Sozinho, Rui começa a perder a vontade de viver. Mas, estranhamente, o fantasma de Pedro parece querer unir Odete e Rui para realizar o sonho de uma e terminar com a desesperança do outro.

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.

Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her neighbors, an old lady keeps on asking her: “Maybe you could get pregnant?” “Maybe…” she answers. After going through medical exams, Ana makes her choice.

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…

Um cão ladra e esgravata uma porta fechada. Uns olhos e uma boca por trás de uma máscara de borracha negra. Sérgio construiu um mundo à sua medida. Perseguido por um desejo insaciável, só joga a ganhar. Indiferente a tudo, passa os dias entre o quarto alugado numa pensão barata, sexo anónimo com outros homens e o trabalho na recolha do lixo na zona norte de Lisboa.

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.

The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple lost in drugs. Nights can be seen as the story of people who made mistakes in life, but who still continue to seek happiness. It is about the despair of hopeless lives. The characters are, from the beginning, thrown into an empty and sterile world of indifference. In this true no-man's-land, João and Teresa are confronted with their precarious existence. They are broken pillars of a love that has become silent and painful, they share everything: the house, the drugs, the emptiness and the deprivations of their lives. To make the situation even more dramatic, Teresa falls ill. João does everything to help her, betting on his love for her. He, too, an addict, knows how to ease the pain of his beloved. But unfortunately this help also requires extra money, which forces João to prostitute himself, accelerating his process of destruction and his path to a tragic end.

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed. Its stationmaster, Vincente, is preparing to retire. Many young people have moved out, leaving the children to be brought up by the elderly, including thirteen-year-old Glória and her friend Ivan. Glória's life suddenly changes with the arrival of Vincente's younger brother, Mauro, who has just come out of prison and has some old issues to settle. Mauro begins to charge around the station on his motorbike, while Glória's friendship with Ivan is put to test on account of her attraction to older Mauro.

A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.

Anos 50. Aldeia de Barquinha, margens do Rio Douro. Casada já madura com António, mestre de uma draga regressado de muitos anos no Brasil, Carolina é guarda da passagem-de-nível. Ciumenta, agressiva, tem uma afilhada, Melita, que enfraquece a cabeça dos homens - sobretudo, aqueles que Carolina tem ou traz debaixo de olho. Em especial Zé dos Ouros, um cigano que vende ouro. Até que Carolina comete um crime sanguinário - mata António, uma grande e horrível tragédia, pois ele estava inocente das suas suspeitas.

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.

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.

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.

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.

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.