Director
In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for luxury apartments. Seeing this as a perfect image for the death of a certain Lisbon in the wake of the financial crisis and the ensuing real estate and touristic boom, the director films an urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there. What starts out as a work-centred film turns out to be the story of the director’s relationship with his hometown and with the people who build it.
Pai
Struggling to settle in her first apartment, Laura returns to the space where she has always been happy, the beach where she spent holidays with her parents. For the first time, she feels the urge to say goodbye to her childhood in order to create her own space.
Editor
At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he will never return to active life, he must go from company to company asking for stamps to attest that he is looking for work. In these trips he reminisces about his life as an immigrant to the U.S., where he worked as a cab driver in New York and witnessed numerous Wall Street crashes.
Director
It's summer in Lisbon and Nicolau is an undecided boy. Among his doubts about the university course to follow and what kind of girl to choose for his girlfriend, Nicolau spends his days trying to figure out who he wants to be when he's bigger. The problem is, he's about to finish the secondary exams, he is already big, without having things clearer. From indecision to indecision, Nicolau navigates in sight, with the only compass for his possible choices being the girls he is going to fall in love and with those he imagine as many possible futures.
Editor
One of the most far-reaching events in a human life is the birth of your baby. But life with a newborn can be so ordinary and at the same time all-embracing: the wash is drying in the corridor, the bathroom has to be cleaned. In the calm rhythm of the day, 'Ordinary Time' skims past authentic moments like this.
Editor
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Editor
O programa Novas Oportunidades foi um programa de educação com uma vertente baseada no reconhecimento e certificação escolar das aprendizagens realizadas fora da escola. Nestas sessões homens e mulheres pensam e discursam sobre a sua trajectória de vida, as condições que determinaram a sua existência e a sua dificuldade em existir. Falam da sua formação, da sua experiência profissional, das suas origens, produzindo uma pluralidade de pontos de vistas sobre a escola, a cidade, o campo, a família, o mundo operário e o universo do emprego. Partindo das histórias de vida dos protagonistas, o filme desloca‐se para uma abordagem ensaística sobre o trabalho no mundo contemporâneo.
Editor
Mariana is an 11 years old girl coming from Serpa who just moved to Lisbon with her father. The first days are spent in the city cleaning the house and knowing the new neighborhood, Entrecampos. After the first day of school, Mariana gets lost coming home and has to call her father for help. The next day, she becomes friends with a boy in her class, Nicholau, and his older brother, Simão. The two brothers invite Mariana for lunch and help her to get home.
Writer
Mariana is an 11 years old girl coming from Serpa who just moved to Lisbon with her father. The first days are spent in the city cleaning the house and knowing the new neighborhood, Entrecampos. After the first day of school, Mariana gets lost coming home and has to call her father for help. The next day, she becomes friends with a boy in her class, Nicholau, and his older brother, Simão. The two brothers invite Mariana for lunch and help her to get home.
Director
Mariana is an 11 years old girl coming from Serpa who just moved to Lisbon with her father. The first days are spent in the city cleaning the house and knowing the new neighborhood, Entrecampos. After the first day of school, Mariana gets lost coming home and has to call her father for help. The next day, she becomes friends with a boy in her class, Nicholau, and his older brother, Simão. The two brothers invite Mariana for lunch and help her to get home.
Himself
Um quarto vazio. Uma actriz. O que é preciso para fazer um filme? Um argumentista que escreve. Um filme que passa numa televisão. Boy meets Girl. Um encontro entre dois actores. O que se vê de uma janela falsa? Um cenário num estúdio. Um director de fotografia. Uma estrela de cinema. Um argumento. Quando é que um filme acaba? Um realizador. Uma câmara.
Camera Operator
All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?
Assistant Director
All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?
Editor
David, escultor de máscaras de madeira, e Adélia, cantora de cantigas, são os protagonistas deste filme que decorre na região fronteiriça de Trás-os-Montes. Eles testemunham a condição de abandono desta terra em cujo chão raivoso sobrevivem vestígios de um antiquíssimo oceano.
Director
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / The London Film School
