João Pedro Vaz

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of the life of the historic leader of the Portuguese Communist Party are explored. In between, excerpts from his own books are staged for the spectator.

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.

История про семью — отца, мать и их дочь Марту, которая вынуждена страдать от бремени безработицы. Действие фильма разворачивается в современной Португалии.

1971-й год, Португалия ведет колониальную войну в Анголе, среди её вынужденных участников – молодой доктор Антониу, оставивший на родине беременную жену Марию-Жозе. За два года кровавой службы в раскаленной солнцем, пугающе чужой, нищей и прекрасной стране Антониу отправит любимой десятки потрясающих писем. Они, прочитанные за кадром голосом Марии-Жозе, и стали драматургической основой печального и красивого фильма, снятого в завораживающей черно-белой гамме.

We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the nose cap of an umbrella arises from a mount of sand. Oh, Happy Days! No need to stage anything! The bulldozer is a dinosaur whose teeth and gracious neck swings by a EU flag. In the boxes, we await the audience. Sometimes, nobody comes. Lost in a symbolic show of reality, I can only watch the world's end because all the endangered species perform and a reflecting labyrinth of life stories breaks through the glass of the Economic Eating Machine. Even when the sky is falling, theatre will always happen. So, choose the right place.

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.

An homage to Pina Bausch.

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

История распавшейся семьи, члены которой пытаются общаться, но подавлены путаницей их отношений и проблемами повседневной жизни.

Рикарду — трансвестит в баре, его парень покончил жизнь самоубийством. Рикарду пытается вскоре после этого совершить суицид. Именно эта неудачная попытка самоубийства позволяет ему возобновить контакт с сестрой Марией и узнать своего племянника Вашку, который имеет синдром Дауна. Он также пытается ужиться и со своим отцом Жозе, а с Марией, и в основном с Вашку, Рикарду должен заново научиться жить.

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.

Семья из Лиссабона получает в наследство дом в небольшой деревне. В доме, говорит народ, не все чисто. Вскоре всем членам семейства начинают слышаться голоса и являться видения...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?

An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.