Raul Atalaia

Apesar dos seus 18 anos, Jó (João Jesus) é já um rapaz desencantado com a vida. Proveniente de uma família disfuncional, criado com pouco afecto e compreensão, acabou por se deixar influenciar pelas piores companhias do bairro. Rosa (Maria do Céu Guerra), com 73 anos, é uma mulher frágil e bondosa que se debate com a incapacidade de lidar com o recente falecimento de Joaquim (Nicolau Breyner), com quem partilhou quase toda a existência. Quando, depois de uma discussão particularmente violenta, Jó é expulso de casa pelo pai, refugia-se no terraço de Rosa, onde decide passar a noite. Na manhã seguinte, a velha senhora descobre o rapaz e decide acolhê-lo em sua casa. Entre os dois nasce uma enorme cumplicidade que, apesar de incompreendida por todos, se torna a cada dia mais forte e verdadeira…

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.

Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?

O amor paira em Londres. Há um casal que se casa. Há um padrinho de casamento que se apaixona. Há um viúvo que tenta ajudar o enteado a expressar os seus sentimentos por uma rapariga. Uma mãe devota que procura o amor que já não existe. Há amores secretos e outros nem tanto. Em plena quadra natalícia, oito casais têm de lidar com o amor.

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...