Screenplay
In the mountains of Portugal, amidst the timeless vineyards of the Duoro Valley a yearly ritual begins every September: the harvest of the season's grapes. A Wonderful Kingdom is an homage to these hardworking folks. Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this hypnotic, observational documentary unfurls across the epic beauty and austerity of both nature and humanity.
Novel
O primeiro telefilme adapta um conto da autoria de Miguel Torga e é realizado por João Cayatte. Fronteira passa-se em 1970 e a ação decorre numa aldeia, à qual chega um novo chefe de posto da Guarda Fiscal (Sisley Dias). Com convicções muito vincadas sobre a aplicação da Lei, o responsável entra em conflito com a população, que sobrevive com a prática de contrabando. Mas o conflito passional coloca em causa todos os seus valores, assim como a sua noção de dever, o que vai obrigá-lo a tomar uma decisão inesperada e irreversível.
Writer
Um encontro de artistas reunidos para celebrar a genialidade de Miguel Torga. Botelho filma o trabalho de compositores Portugueses cuja música se inspira nos textos mágicos do escritor e nas passagens de “Um Reino Maravilhoso (Trás-os-Montes)”. Um filme sobre a alma das pedras e das montanhas e sobre o coração e os olhos dos homens e dos animais que habitam o mundo inventado por Torga. Um mundo que desafia Deus e todos os homens.
Writer
Against his mother and the village's wish, Pedro decides do marry Raquel, an ill woman with cases of mental illness in her family.
Novel
Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village. Production date is 1975. Had its first major public release in 2009, at MotelX, Lisbon's International Horror Film Festival in the section "Lost Room". The movie was suggested to the MotelX production by the portuguese director António Macedo who knew about the existence of this and other portuguese movies about popular legends and myths of the portuguese imaginary. The movie was archived and conserved by the portuguese Cinematheque.
