Mariana Gaivão

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.

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.

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.

Três histórias portuguesas realizadas por jovens cineastas portuguesas e premiadas em festivais europeus que se agregam em um único longa-metragem.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

A man goes on a journey for a slice of apple pie.

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Um fim de semana de Verão numa casa rural na zona de Sintra. Nicolau, um rapaz de 14 anos, passa dois dias na companhia do irmão mais velho, Simão, e os amigos deste, todos a caminho dos 30. A bela e reservada Maria do Mar é alvo da atenção de todos, mas Nicolau é quem mais verá a sua vida perturbada por aquela inesperada presença feminina.

The south wind stirred the dawn. I got up before them to film them.

The south wind stirred the dawn. I got up before them to film them.

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to give him a ride home - but they won't reach their expected destination.

'Bué Sabi' (pronounced "bweh sabi") portrays the unlikely friendship of three female characters: a troubled girl of Gypsy descent who lives in one of Lisbon's toughest neighbourhoods, her best friend from Cape Verde and a young middle-class girl. Apart from their differences, they are good friends. Until one fateful night in Lisbon...

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.

Operação Outono é um thriller político sobre a operação que levou ao assassinato de Humberto Delgado pela PIDE em Fevereiro de 1965, em Villanueva del Fresno. O filme inspira-se em factos verídicos, alguns dos quais foram recentemente descobertos por Frederico Delgado Rosa, biógrafo e neto do General Humberto Delgado, e retirados do seu livro Humberto Delgado, Biografia do General sem Medo. A ação decorre entre Portugal, Espanha, Argélia, Marrocos, França e Itália, no período entre 1964 e 1981, desde a preparação da operação levada a cabo pela PIDE, e que tinha por nome de código: Operação Outono, até ao caso do Tribunal, já depois do 25 de Abril.

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

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.

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it becomes fierce, and like death, she cannot look it in the eye - only to the shadows around her

Generation Orchestra is a portrait of the impact of an initiative by the same name students from the Miguel Torga School, in Amadora. The initiative was inspired by the international project Orquestra Simon Bolivar, the apex of the National Network of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela. Ana, Daniel, Diogo and Monica take part in Generation Orchestra and devote themselves to a project that breaks with the formatted context of public schooling and becomes an indispensable part of their lives. From the onset, starting with Drama classes, we discover their dreams, their relationship with music and their sense of truly belonging to a group.

Maria, uma médica ucraniana, vem a Portugal passar um ano com Greco, o seu marido, também ele médico. À chegada ao aeroporto de Faro é abordada por agentes do Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras que a levam para uma sala de interrogatórios, sem quaisquer explicações. Tudo isto ocorre pelo facto de as autoridades desconfiarem que algo de ilegal deve estar por detrás daquela viagem, uma vez que ela é da Europa de Leste e o seu marido é senegalês.

On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...

An homage to Pina Bausch.

Rui (J.P. Simões) está a meio caminho da separação de Sílvia e João, sua mulher e seu filho. Apercebendo-se que de que o pai não consegue sair daquela situação, e de que nela nunca será feliz, João decide pedir ajuda ao mítico herói boliviano, o “El Justiciero”.

Rui (J.P. Simões) está a meio caminho da separação de Sílvia e João, sua mulher e seu filho. Apercebendo-se que de que o pai não consegue sair daquela situação, e de que nela nunca será feliz, João decide pedir ajuda ao mítico herói boliviano, o “El Justiciero”.

Documentary about life and work of Fernando Lopes-Graça.

Matias is a Portuguese teenager growing up in Lisbon, with no connection to the German nationality of his father. In the summer of his 16th birthday, Matias finds the memories of his grandfather Gerald, in the form of an old photo album titled “Jugend" (“Youth"). In one of the most striking photos, Gerald, then also 16, wears a Nazi uniform, and looks disturbingly like Matias. Over the 80 years that separate them, a bridge emerges, triggering a long journey across Europe, itself haunted by the amnesiac resurgence of nationalism, echoing the too recent history of the old continent.