José Luís Carvalhosa

É insólito o lugar de Ana Vieira na arte portuguesa: trabalhando o rasto, a sombra, a passagem da luz (ou dos corpos?), o reflexo, a sobreposição, a pegada, a memória ou a planificação do futuro, a sua arte raia o invisível. E questiona o lugar da arte - e do espectador, colocado sempre “de fora” ou com a consciência do “off”.

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the radio. The father did not know that the son liked classical music, and the son did not know that that would be the last time he would speak to his father. But Mozart asks that souls rejoice, that men rejoice.

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the end of the Portuguese Empire, he who created the first metaphors against the Portuguese Colonialism. And who, with constant vitality, has opposed himself against the New World Order. Knowing, with Eliot, that “the past and the future time are both always present on the present time”

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an artist, and a painter. Eventually, the artist started writing, and impressing the cultural world of his country to the point he became an established artistic name, and a college teacher. So, too, did that young man grow to be a theater and film writer, producer, and director.

Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the Museum Arpad Scenes-Vieira da Silva. Film by Jorge Silva Melo that closely follows the work of one of the most important painters of the second half of the 20th century, specifically in the area of portrait.

In Aparecida, 50 Km from o’Porto, the atmosphere surrounding this years preparation of the yearly festivities is tense: the new priest aims to discouraje the "Promise payers" from doing it having themselves carried in open coffins through the village untill th chappel of the Appeared Lady. Superstition against Theological Argument, fidelity to the vows or reinterpretation… The conflict becomes unavoidable. It’s the local identity and its inhabitants identity that’s in stake. If this type of processions were common in the last century on the north of the Iberian Peninsula, this one, will probably be the last in Portugal. At the village of Senhora Aparecida the festivities of August are set. The main wooden bier that will carry the Saint may be 15 metres high. It is now being assembled and decorated. Those who escaped death now celebrate life. The Lady redistributes the power she's been given.

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

Comédia sentimental, intriga policial e tragédia doméstica, este filme conta a história de Maria, uma "filha da mãe" cômica, agressiva, cínica e sentimental. Tem um namorado, Adriano, que se dedica a pequenos tráficos e roubos. A sua mãe é Júlia, atriz insegura e perversa que tem como amante ocasional Gigi, ator e drogado, sempre sem dinheiro e com o coração dividido entre Júlia e Dalila, sua colega de palco. O seu pai é Álvaro, um pintor que depois de ter ficado desaparecido durante vinte anos no Brasil, quer voltar para Júlia como se nada tivesse acontecido e dá de cara com uma filha que não sabe se é sua e que, quase sem se dar conta, lhe cai nos braços.

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary.

A história duma cidade - Miranda do Douro - e dos seus habitantes, vítimas duma catástrofe no dia 8 de Maio de 1762. Morrem cerca de trezentas e cinquenta a quatrocentas pessoas, destroem-se casas e há muitos feridos. A guerra, exterior àquela gente, vitima-a da pior maneira, pelo inesperado - o acidente. A cidade era um importante objectivo militar, e terá destruição provocada por uma explosão na sua praça forte...

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justice against a "pide" assassin (eted). But the April 25 and May 1, to September 28 and March 11, follows the November 25 - striking dates a forthcoming story. Time caused the wear of the revolutionary process, exacerbating social and economic problems. In the intellectual groups of the left, where the ideological coherence flew over the everyday practice, is dug a crisis of identity and options. An early vote, perhaps radical, unites -still - a determined activist and a journalist who wonders ...

Realizado para a RTP, fazendo parte da série "Contos Tradicionais Portugueses". Junto à Ribeira de Silvalde, nas proximidades de uma ponte que foi romana e que já não o é por obras e vontade da gente de outros tempos, existia um campo e dele tirava sustento uma mulher, com a força do seu suor e trabalho. E assim ela estava, como era hábito dos dias, quando viu em sua direcção aproximar-se bicho nunca visto, que só de cabeças tinha muitas, e de cujas intenções a mulher fez tal juízo que logo deitou a correr no meio de grande gritaria.

A short film.

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.