Helena Alves

Filmes

Linhas Tortas
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Uma história de enganos amorosos e do desenleio desses enganos, sempre arrastada pela força maior do acaso.
Natureza Morta
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Within one image, another one is always hiding. Wordless and using only archive footage, "Still Life" aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images (news, war footage, propaganda documentaries, photos of political prisoners and never seen before rushes) made during the 48 years (1926-1974) of Portuguese dictatorship in order to foster new interpretations.
Noite Escura
Iris
A disturbing movie about the portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Só Por Acaso
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A bad luck that should never have happened, sends Rodrigo into a coma that lasts five years. And when he wakes up, after so long haunted by the image of the woman who shot him at close range, he realizes that life has not stopped waiting for him, without realizing that everyone is lying to him. And that your best friend is getting ready to get you into trouble again.
Crónica Feminina
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Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things
Aniversário
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The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
Menos Nove
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This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.
Conserva Acabada
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A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
Recordações da Casa Amarela
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Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos
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Documentário dedicado ao artista plástico Fernando Lanhas. Fernando Lanhas nasceu no Porto em 1923. É uma das figuras mais interessantes e também mais desconcertantes da arte contemporânea portuguesa. Poeta,arquitecto, arqueólogo, desenhador, astrónomo, pintor, Lanhas é um pouco de tudo isso. E é também um sonhador cujos sonhos são cuidadosamente anotados: os mais conhecidos são os de levitação. Na pintura, de certo modo, foi ele quem inventou o abstraccionismo, numa época em que as experiências nesse domínio eram totalmente desconhecidas, mais a mais sendo Portugal um país periférico e estando o mundo envolvido na guerra.