Producer
Araci, uma índia ticuna que viu a sua cultura ser destruída na Amazónia, vai viver para o Alentejo, terra do seu marido, sonhando um futuro melhor para a neta Joana. Araci é guardiã de valores culturais que não têm correspondência no novo território português e que vão despertar a cobiça da vizinha Adriana. O seu lar desfaz-se uma segunda vez e Araci reinventa à sua volta um microcosmo onírico onde verá crescer Joana. Ao mesmo tempo que este universo resguarda Joana do mundo exterior, também lhe fecha um futuro e ameaça ruir a qualquer momento.
Co-Producer
Eva está noiva de um homem aristocrático, de família conservadora. O que será que eles vão pensar quando souberem que a avó dela vai se casar com a melhor amiga?
Producer
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
Writer
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
Director
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
Producer
Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.
Producer
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.
Production Manager
In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he decided to send his daughter, Adriana, to the mainland to form a family by natural methods.
Producer
One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Executive Producer
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
Producer
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
Associate Producer
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
Producer
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
Associate Producer
Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
Co-Producer
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Producer
Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources – including Kafka and Montaigne – and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentary inspired naturalism of Ana and Trás-os-Montes. Reis and Cordeiro’s least known film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo. - Harvard Film Archive
Line Producer
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Production Manager
Porque todos os filmes reflectem, de algum modo, quem os faz, Oxalá não foge à regra. Só que, aqui, o cinema assume esse facto, acentua uma certa confessionalidade mostra-se. O lado simpático de Oxalá é essa disponibilidade. É muito claro que este é um filme que se sente mal na sua pele portuguesa do final dos anos 70, que vive fixado, adolescentemenre, na França da Nouvelle Vague. O seu exilado que atravessa, entre o perto e a distância os anos de Abril é, por isso, mais um estrangeiro que um compatriota, alguém cujo descentramento, em relação à realidade portuguesa, é total. Daí que nenhum dos seus gestos tenha consequências, daí que, visivelmente, ele não esteja disposto a pagar nenhum preço pela vida, nem se quer o preço do amor. Dai a impotência. O equívoco.
Production Manager
Nesta adaptação do conto tradicional português, um viajante errante descansa numa estalagem enquanto procura caminho. Entretanto, enquanto dorme, três belas mulheres indicam-lhe o seu destino: as ilhas negras, onde poderá encontrá-las e de entre elas, casar-se com aquela que é princesa.
