Le Portugais
Em Pacifiction, em uma ilha da Polinésia Francesa, uma escritora retorna ao seu país depois de ter triunfado na França com um romance. No entanto, ela está desorientada e em crise criativa. Diante da impossibilidade de escrever novos trabalhos, ela decide aceitar um trabalho de tradução simultânea junto com um embaixador. Uma estranha atração amorosa começa entre eles, cheia de contrastes. Aos poucos ela percebe o cinismo da política internacional, com uma ameaça latente de novos testes nucleares por parte do governo francês. Seu caso de amor com o embaixador será afetado por esse conflito, e interesses políticos e romance se misturam.
Vítor
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
Petrarch
Luís Vaz de Camões, o maior poeta português do Renascimento, debate-se criativamente ao engrenar num estilo de vida hedonístico, coprófago e baralhado pelo consumo de drogas. O filme acompanha o poeta, e a sua amante Dinamene, na altura em que escreve a sua obra-prima, o poema épico "Os Lusíadas". Viaja desde a cacofonia das selvas índicas, rodeado de elefantes alegóricos e macacos que rimam, até à fronteira entre o Céu e o Inferno, onde é confrontado com a sua fantasia: a fama e a imortalidade.
Director
Is the asymmetry of wants the true form of encounter between two people? In this film two men and the sea will maybe have something to say.
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.
Director
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.
Writer
Um cão ladra e esgravata uma porta fechada. Uns olhos e uma boca por trás de uma máscara de borracha negra. Sérgio construiu um mundo à sua medida. Perseguido por um desejo insaciável, só joga a ganhar. Indiferente a tudo, passa os dias entre o quarto alugado numa pensão barata, sexo anónimo com outros homens e o trabalho na recolha do lixo na zona norte de Lisboa.
Jornalista da tê-que-não-vê
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.
Aircraft commander
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
Producer
Do isolamento da sua ilha, X, uma personagem sem nome observa , no exterior, uma cena cujo sentido lhe escapa, e o faz partir numa viagem circular pelos percursos da sua memória/imaginação: o homem da espingarda, o estúdio da TV, um estranho passageiro de comboio, a rapariga que entrava por janelas fechadas, a organização misteriosa, o velho que tinha a solução, o homem que sabia o que andava a vender, uma imagem de taxi...
Writer
A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection. Shown here are his techniques, themes, and obcessions developed for over two decades, as well as its ramifications into different supports such as Video, Photography, literature, taking the rare oportunity granted by a full retrospective of his work at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, including the works dispersed through International collections.
Psychiatrist
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
