José Afonso

A few months before WW2 a family is torn apart: Maria goes to Timor, her brothers to Portugal. After Japan invaded Timor and Maria is sent to a prisoner’s camp, her family fears the worst. A documentary about a silenced period in Portuguese history.

On April 25, 1974 the iconoclastic Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha was in Portugal. There, he joined the collective collective film "As Armas e o Povo". With his foreign and peculiar look, he broke the rules of conventional filmmaking.

No aeroporto do Rio de Janeiro uma bebe é raptada por uma comissaria da TAP. Dois anos depois, agora em Lisboa, a mãe inconformada se sustenta trabalhando num bar de striptease mas passa grande parte do dia no aeroporto, na esperança de reencontrar a comissaria...

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.

Um luso-americano regressado à terra natal, Joe Valente tem o sonho de transformar a apanha do moliço, na região de Aveiro, duma fase artesanal em verdadeira indústria. A dragagem intensiva da ria, e a consequente oferta à lavoura de moliço a mais baixo preço, causarão a miséria dos que labutam através de métodos tradicionais, provocando o descontentamento e a agitação popular... Em paralelo, o romance entre a filha, Linda, e Filipe, um jovem repórter de Lisboa, destacado para cobrir os acontecimentos. [Fonte: José de Matos-Cruz, O Cais do Olhar, 1999, p.190]

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 ...

The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.