François d'Artemare

A boy who grows up with his step-parents in Greece and who, at the age of 20, unwittingly murders his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works in the prison. They are both unaware of the fact that she is his biological mother. Twenty years later, he lives in London with his daughter and is beginning to lose his eyesight.

Um hotel junto à costa norte de Portugal, acolhe os seus clientes, num fim de semana. Um homem vive dividido entre a atenção a dar à sua mulher e o espaço que ocupa a sua mãe no meio deles. Uma mãe promove o casamento da filha para facilitar a sua relação amorosa com o genro. Outra mãe vive através da filha, impedindo-a de tomar as suas próprias decisões. Três núcleos familiares em final de ciclo de aceitação.

Num hotel familiar junto à costa norte de Portugal, vivem várias mulheres da mesma família de gerações diferentes. Numa relação envenenada pela amargura tentam sobreviver no hotel em decadência. A chegada inesperada de uma neta a este espaço claustrofóbico provoca perturbação e o avivar de ódios latentes e rancores acumulados.

In 1982, Yann Andréa and Marguerite Duras have been living together for two years. She is almost 70 years old, while he is 38 years her junior. Andréa asks journalist and writer Michèle Manceaux to interview him about his life with Duras, an obsession that both impassions him and drives him mad. He believes by entrusting their story to Manceaux, he may gain more clarity of the relationship. What follows is an intense and compelling conversation delving into the deepest recesses of modern love.

When her mother forbids her from biting her nails, Sarah has to abide by new rules she doesn't understand. By taking control of her actions and other people's attitudes toward her, Sarah redefines her relationship with others and herself.

Shimu, 23 anos, trabalha numa fábrica de têxteis em Daca, Bangladesh. Face a condições de trabalho cada vez mais duras, decide criar um sindicato com as suas colegas. Apesar das ameaças dos patrões e desaprovação do marido, nada demove Shimu. Ela e as suas companheiras terão de lutar juntas até ao fim.

With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.

Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.

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A viagem de 11 mulheres enquanto vão em peregrinação de Bragança a Fátima.

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old Bruno’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force Bruno to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister Érica.

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.

A look at the art of two pairs of brothers, plastic artists: João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz; Pedro Tropa and Francisco Tropa.

In a war-torn African country, a small group of young people, led by Mão-de-Ferro, a traumatized and violent war child, arrive in a mysterious city where children, abandoned by adults, have created their own utopian republic.

Anajara regressa do trabalho ao amanhecer. Hoje não poderá deixar Iuri na escola. A setenta quilómetros de casa, Allison espera pela mulher e o filho. Hoje é dia de visita na prisão de Santarém.

On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

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.

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?

Numa viagem de comboio para o Algarve, Macário conta as atribulações da sua vida amorosa a uma desconhecida senhora: Mal entra para o seu primeiro emprego, um lugar de contabilista no armazém em Lisboa do seu tio Francisco, apaixona-se perdidamente pela rapariga loira que vive na casa do outro lado da rua, Luísa Vilaça. Conhece-a e quer de imediato casar com ela. O tio discorda, despede-o e expulsa-o de casa. Macário consegue enriquecer em Cabo-Verde e quando já tem a aprovação do tio para finalmente casar com a sua amada, descobre então a "singularidade" do carácter da noiva.

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.

Two solitary men embark on a journey to find a missing woman...

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".

Documentary that explores the history of the Portuguese pop band ‘Heróis do Mar’. Confronting imagery of old Portugal versus modern Portugal.The ideas, the ideals, and the dynamics of popular portuguese music of the 80’s voiced by its musicians and non-musicians.

Os destinos de 4 personagens se entrelaçam dentro do restrito perímetro de uns poucos quarteirões de Copacabana, caldeirão de fantasmas e falsas aparências, o avesso do Rio cartão-postal. Dois homens e um menino estão apaixonados pela mesma mulher. Quatro esdrúxulos mosqueteiros na terra do "cada um por si e Deus contra todos".

Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give things to young, attractive and good-natured people, and they exploit this shamelessly. Francisco, a neighbour of theirs, has given up on life. He's abandoned his wife and child to take refuge far from those who might hurt him ; in effect dying. He's ashamed of this, and never ever looks at anyone. This has given him, amongst the women of the neighbourhood, the reputation of being able to tell, just by looking at a couple, how long they'll stay together. The sudden news of the death of his much loved wife, upsets Francisco's routine.

Portrait of Pedro Cabrita Reis, one of the most important artists of the young generation in Portugal as seen by one of the most famous woman director of her generation! Pedro Cabrita Reis has an important body that fills the screen with power. He creates spaces of huge dimensions where poetry rises. The documentary culminates with his participation in the last Venice Bienal with two gigantic light structures.

Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share the same room, the same tastes, the same bike, the same camping tent. But also a conflict principle sets in. Oppressed by his overbearing need, she decides to head for the south of Portugal, the country of their parents. His dreams are shattered; he feels deeply betrayed by his sister. Caught between his father who is preparing to retire to Portugal and his mother who refuses to leave France, he tries to work out his own identity. His passion for rock music gets him involved with his sister's former lover. By following this charismatic leader preaching dubious ideology, he risks losing his "gentle half" forever. Meanwhile in Portugal, she becomes disillusioned. Will they manage to grow up without each other?

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

De início tudo era relativamente simples. Eu procurava um rapaz de origem africana, entre os 16 e os 18 anos para incarnar o papel de Alberto no filme que eu acabara de escrever. Como não eram actores, pedi aos candidatos que me contassem uma história à escolha. O que me deram foi um bocado de vida, e fizeram-no com uma tal generosidade e autenticidade que era eu quem estava em causa. Seria eu capaz de reencontrar a mesma força, a mesma emoção?

A poignant personal story. Do we want to know it? Sérgio tries to understand the troubled past of his mother, Fleurette, 79 years old. Notwithstanding her resistance to his questions, little by little, throughout the film she reveals almost another life where love is closely related to politics. From occupied France and Nazi Germany to the Brazilian dictatorship and the Portuguese revolution.bright and powerful speech magnetizes the audience.

A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by German-speaking sots and Portuguese guest workers. An unhappy young couple, Leni and Anton, quarrel and split separately into the rat’s ass of the evening. Everyone is looking for love, but no one finds any—although Leni does pick up a trick.

Natal 71 é o nome de um disco oferecido aos militares em guerra no Ultramar português nesse mesmo ano, e que serve de título a este documentário sobre a guerra colonial.

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.

A história de um ovo, prisioneiro no interior de uma frigideira, que tenta fugir ao seu destino, simbolizado por uma grande espátula decidida a apanhá-lo.