João Botelho volta a trazer Alexandre O’Neill ao cinema depois de Um Adeus Português. Num filme com uma veia musical e onírica, o elenco conta com Pedro Lacerda, Inês Castel-Branco, Claudio da Silva, Crista Alfaiate, Rita Blanco, Luis Lima Barreto, Soraia Chaves, Joana Santos, Gabriela Barros, Maya Booth,, Vera Moura, Maria João Pinho, Dinarte Branco, Pedro Diogo, Isabel Zuaa, Joana Botelho, entre outros.
A História de um Milagre, em meio a Primeira Guerra Mundial, três crianças de Portugal Jacinta, Francisco Marto e Lucia de Jesus dos Santos testemunham seis visões da Virgem Maria entre os meses de maio e outubro de 1917. Após contar para adultos céticos, a igreja católica romana válida a visão das crianças, transformando a cidade de Fátima um dos principais lugares de peregrinação.
Self
A typical day in Porto's Cathedral, between tourists and the local community. A peculiar group of women grabs our attention...
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
Estela
Insatisfeita com a vida sossegada, uma viúva em busca de mudanças embarca em um veleiro rumo a uma aventura de autodescoberta.
Enfermeira
A advogada Beatriz se muda para Lisboa com o marido, Marcelo, um escritor em fase de bloqueio criativo. Quando ele volta a produzir, usa a história do casal como fonte para o novo livro. Instigada, Beatriz passa a buscar experiências menos rotineiras e mais inusitadas.
Short Portuguese film about history.
Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.
Mad Prostitute
In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life. Today this neighborhood is reflected in a scattered public debate centered on its night life.
Entre Fevereiro e Julho de 1858, na gruta Massabielle, a Virgem Maria apareceu 18 vezes para Bernadette Soubirous, uma pobre garota de Lourdes. Uma verdadeira revolução no coração do Segundo Império que abalou a ordem estabelecida com uma mensagem universal de amor e paz.
Estefania
A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.
Lilly
Pele is a film about a young mulatto woman that in spite of being rich, beautiful and intelligent, feels discriminated because of the colour of her skin. The entire plot is in the early 70's, when Portugal had a dictatorial government, ultramarine territories and lots of racism in its society… Issues like racism, female condition and the spoilt lives of the high-society are the main themes of this movie
a woman
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.
Woman
Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal
Mãe
Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.
Sofia
A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
Isaura
Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
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…
Dolores
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
Maria Rita Branco Raposo
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.
