In a digital age where everything is fast and efficient, human beings are unable to develop meaningful relationships. Lia, an unconforming young woman from this well-formed society, struggles with the loss of her father and finds herself in a depressive state. After receiving an offer that promises to solve all her problems, Lia will have to make a choice: the comfort of the virtual world, in which she will have total control over her life or the real world with the virtues and difficulties inherent to everyday life.
Com uma sonoridade moderna e ao mesmo tempo profundamente portuguesa, António Variações foi um dos músicos mais originais alguma vez surgidos em Portugal. António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, de seu nome de baptismo, faria 75 anos no final de 2019. Morreu em 1984, em Lisboa, aos 39 anos. Esta é a sua história.
A mysterious shadow unveiling a female figure walking naked towards us in the desert. In another sequence, the same woman speaks on the phone, talking about the end of the world. In a third moment, a couple prepares breakfast in their apartment, with the same woman from the previous sequences embracing a baby. What will these three narrative moments have in common? What is the relationship between them? Everything and nothing. Is the answer in the woman’s emotional words on the phone? Or in her helpless expression when walking naked? Or in the happiness she seems to find in the domestic routine? Perhaps the charm is really not in trying to decipher, but in getting lost in this visual and impressionistic poem, this shake that slowly expands in our senses. Max Planck, one of the founders of the ancient quantum physics theory, said that energy has a discontinuous structure and can only exist under the form of fragments. These are the fragments that hide here an ethereal promise.
A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.
Com a invasão de França pelas tropas da Alemanha Nazi, os judeus franceses procuram escapar à perseguição dos invasores. Assim, o consulado português em Bordéus, como outros, vê-se invadido por pedidos urgentes de visto. Para conter o problema e manter Portugal — um país neutro — longe dos problemas dos países beligerantes, é emitida uma circular que obriga os consulados portugueses a negar pedidos de visto de vários cidadãos, mormente de ascendência judaica. Em Bordéus, Aristides de Sousa Mendes opta por ignorar as ordens, dando dezenas de milhares de vistos a judeus em fuga e sacrificando, assim, a sua carreira e a sua vida pessoal.
