Pedro Fernandes Duarte

Ana is spending the holidays with her family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a pond. Attracted by it, Ana senses a presence, someone familiar yet still unknown. Alexander David captures on screen all the beauty of a childhood self-discovery and the first uncertain steps taken outside of parental control. Evocative and mellow, Water Hazard explores queer identity with a delicate and empathetic eye.

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.

On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.

Márcia is a social media pro and knows all the best poses and filters for perfect selfies. Her son Flávio helps her to take photos of herself. This is how she manages to hook up with famous rapper Da Reel Chullz on Instagram. She is not about to turn him down when he asks her out on a date – even if no one can be found to look after Flávio. A refreshing portrait of a single mother who knows how to work things out.

In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair and the desire to escape.

No longa de estreia da portuguesa Catarina Vasconcelos, os mistérios habitam os detalhes. A passagem do tempo é sentida nas imagens da memória, presentificadas nos corpos e paisagens rigorosamente encenados para a câmera. Neste filme-ensaio afetivo, a escrita de si feminina, consciente de seu próprio caráter fabular, desdobra-se nas brechas de um caleidoscópio familiar: entre pai e filha, avó e neta, com a ausência espaçosa da palavra mãe. À narração over, também partilhada poeticamente, cabe o gesto de alinhavar instantes perdidos, resgatar a História de um país que reluta em mudar, forjar novos laços e genealogias por meio (e por causa) do cinema.

Beneath the harvest sun and the cicada song, Mónica Martins Nunes builds a touching portrait of Serra de Serpa, an arid region in the south of Portugal affected by rural exodus. The poems sung by the shepherds and market traders resonate like the last gesture of a human landscape which resists sinking into oblivion.

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house, and they chat as they used to.

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

Sobre como o solo pode ser cultivado de maneira ecologicamente viável e as lutas do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra. Desde 2015, uma área de terra é ocupada por um grupo de trabalhadores, que exige que seja redistribuída. O documentário considera imagens impressionantes para dar uma idéia da vida cotidiana em resistência, partes iguais de trabalho agrícola e ativismo político.

Rapaz tímido domina o amante da mãe. A beleza e o horror trocam carícias. Deuses adolescentes desafiam morais convencionais. A morte prostitui-se vestida de criança.

T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hugo remembers the day when Antonio, his superior at the Ministry, told him that he was going to die. Indirectly, Antonio seemed to want to tell him something about Hugo himself. Hugo’s desire to understand what had remained unsaid between the two of them, triggers other memories from the past. Hugo unexpectedly thinks back on the last time he saw the woman he loved, Adriana, and relives once more what he feels has been his unlived life.