Graça Castanheira

Seis amigos negros de locais diferentes da periferia de Lisboa – Porto Brandão e Cacém – decidem deslocar-se ao Centro Cultural de Belém para assistir a um espetáculo. Alternando o olhar entre o percurso de uns e de outros, ficamos a saber o que pensam e sentem enquanto se dirigem à cidade – Lisa, como lhe chamam. Uma reflexão sobre centro e periferia, negros e brancos, racismo e inclusão.

A cidade do Porto é a segunda maior cidade de Portugal. É conhecida por ser uma cidade católica e conservadora. Este ano o Presidente da Câmara encomendou uma grande árvore de Natal. Entretanto, numa rua da baixa da cidade...

Travels around Portuguese roads, with its very peculiar landscapes: a seismograph of passing time.

Nothing of what we have created or discovered has distinguished us from the other animals as formidably as we would have wished. We have simply created a world of illusions, without which we will not ourselves survive. This film is just that.

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it.

Documentary about life and work of Fernando Lopes-Graça.

How to represent an artistic intention without reducing it to a description? How to do it preserving the intentionality of the gestus in an ambiguous andsubjective space where the individualism of the artistic perspective is set. “my maladresse…” proposes a viewpoint over Ana Jotta’s universe. An analogous portrait of her relations as an artist is created, setting parallel questions, as hermeneutics possibility and art as a value system. The link relating the trio (artist and director’s deuce) balances between familiarity, master and apprentice, subject and object; the distance and authority of the one behind the camera spreading light around artisticurgencies concerning how Work and Life overlay in this unquiet chase of the greater purpose: a search for consolation in the holy_burlesque of existential functionalism. A documental laboratory of reflexive limits.

& etc was created in 1973. It is a small publisher, which since then and until today is governed by quite singular parameters - not for profit, does not publish "commercial" works, publishes unknown authors. It has become, over the years, a reference in the national panorama, known both for the plastic / aesthetic side of its square books and for the published characters, such as, for example, João César Monteiro, Adília Lopes or Alberto Pimenta, some of the most alternatives. Victor Silva Tavares and Rui Caeiro recall some episodes during the three decades of operation of this publishing house.

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

Tomás é um jovem adolescente que luta pela liderança de um pequeno grupo marginal. Uma noite, no mundo que ele não consegue dominar, a sua precipitação leva à morte de um dos membros do grupo. Laura, a possível testemunha do crime, torna-se uma ameaça. Tomás aproxima-se dela para a intimidar. Laura apaixona-se por ele. Mas ela não lhe dirá o que viu naquela noite e o seu silêncio é para Tomás sinal de perigo. No único mundo que conhece, Tomás vive a obsessão das ameaças que o cercam. A paixão de Laura é a mais perturbadora de todas.

A documentary on the sculptor João Cutileiro focusing on his works that were created to be displayed on public spaces. The artist reflects on his career as we visit several of his most iconic works, scattered throughout Portugal.