Maria João Mayer

In today’s Tirana, Agim and Gëzim, two inseparable deaf-mute identical twin brothers in their forties, live under the same roof. Ana, Gëzim’s girlfriend, a young high-spirited woman in her thirties, visits them quite often. One evening, Agim is driving back home with Gëzim, when his sight gets blurred and a fatal accident nearly occurs. At the ophthalmologist, a few days later, the two brothers discover that due to a genetic and rare disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, only Ana by their side, the two brothers have to make a strong decision around a cup of coffee with new shoes on.

Several images follow one another to the work of António Pinho Vargas, Six Portraits of Pain, played in full.

Diamantino, o grande astro mundial do futebol, perde seu toque especial e termina sua carreira em desgraça. Em busca de um novo objetivo, o ícone internacional embarca em uma odisseia delirante onde enfrenta o neofascismo, a crise dos refugiados, a modificação genética e a caça à fonte do gênio.

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.

Um miúdo de 13 anos (idade mítica) vive na Margem sul e vai a Lisboa à procura da mãe, invertendo-se, deste modo, o "papel de responsabilidade".

A couple sees the happiness and future threatened by a disease that can destroy body and soul. A disturbing story made ​​of silences, glances, routines ...

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...

Alguns dias de Outono durante os ensaios de “O Tio Vânia” de Tchékhov. Actores e encenador procuram o caminho para a construção de qualquer coisa em comum. As suas vozes interiores, as suas dúvidas, confundem-se com as das personagens que tentam alcançar. A casa, o tempo, a idade, a frustração. Não estaremos todos à procura de sentido?

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".

No final dos anos 1960 Evita chega a Moçambique para casar com Luís, um estudante de matemática que ali cumpre o serviço militar. Evita rapidamente se apercebe de que Luís já não é o mesmo. Perturbado pela guerra, transformou-se num triste imitador do seu capitão, Forza Leal. Perdida num mundo que não é o seu, Evita apercebe-se da violência de um tempo colonial à beira do fim. Um tempo de guerra, de perda e de culpa.

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.

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.

Sem perspectiva de vida no Brasil, Paco leva uma encomenda misteriosa para Portugal. Na terra estrangeira, ele conhece um casal e, juntos, se envolvem em um esquema de contrabando.

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...

“Manual of Evasion LX94” is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra. It was shot in Lisbon in 1994 and stars Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. Time is explored from many unusual angles, while Pêra fills the screen with a wide variety of bizarre and mind-warping imagery.

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.

O fascinante romance de António Tabucchi na visão de Fernando Lopes, que criou uma admirável fábula necrófila em tom de thriller policial, com Claude Brasseur Em Lisboa num prédio da zona ribeirinha um homem é abatido a tiro. Spino, patologista da Morgue de Lisboa, reconhece o cadáver como sendo ele próprio há trinta anos atrás. Encontra a fotografia de uma bela mulher nua e decide ele próprio fazer o seu inquérito. Percorre todos os passos do falecido até ao momento da morte dele, que é afinal a sua.

A portrayal of Futurist artist José de Almada Negreiros, who said: "I wanted others to say of me: 'Look, a man!' The same way they say: 'Look, a dog!' when a dog passes by; or how you say: 'Look, a tree!', when there is a tree. Which means as an entity, without the use of adjectives, only as one whole: A man!"

Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.