Elsa Ferreira

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

Даже сегодня на некоторых горных хребтах на юге Пиренейского полуострова растут непроходимые дебри, окутанные густыми туманами. Но животноводство и другая хозяйственная деятельность человека значительно изменили окружающий ландшафт. Леса из пробковых и каменных дубов встречаются только здесь и напоминают африканскую саванну. В окружающих горах живут удивительные обитатели. Немногие места в Европе могут сравниться по богатству и разнообразию с Португалией и Испанией. Здесь живут боевой бык, орел в сапогах, черная иберийская свинья, жук-единорог и таинственный рабиларго, разновидность сороки, обитающая только здесь и в Китае.

Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.

Сага о португальской семье, которая владеет одним из крупнейших поместий в Европе, на южном берегу реки Тахо.

The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.

Случайная встреча подталкивает 25-летнего растамана из Португалии Джона броситься на поиски своих корней в Кабо-Верде. Парень считает, что визит к отцу поможет ему обрести себя. Однако приключение проходит не столь гладко...

Мужчина, ребенок, две войны, река, дерево. Мужчина и ребенок встречаются под деревом на берегу реки, разделяя одно воспоминание и секрет. Друг в друге они находят безмятежность, тишину и время, что потеряли в бегущих водах реки.

Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.

История солдата Анибала Мильяиш и более 75 000 португальцев, которые сражались во Фландрии во время Первой мировой войны, о которых мало что известно..

Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.

Летом 1975 года художник и поэт Ал Берту возвращается в родной город Синиш в Португалии. Он и его друзья олицетворяют молодость, эксцентричность и мечты о будущем, но жители маленького консервативного городка не готовы к тем переменах, за которые выступает новое поколение.

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.

Cruzeiro Seixas lives in a maze where every path leads to Mário Cesariny. Subdued by that obsessive love and hate relationship, Cruzeiro Seixos did not fully live, but left proofs of that non-existence: 95 years of paintings and poetry that await full recognition alongside other surrealist masters.

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.

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.

The lives of two women intersect.

Судьба Марии сложилась не очень хорошо, любовь не удалась: ее предал муж Давид. Он украл пакет с деньгами и сбежал на Азорские острова, к лучшей жизни. Но Мария не намерена прощать его. Она предлагает инспектору криминальной полиции, Лукасу, преследовать и найти ее супруга. В это время Давид путешествует по островам и знакомится с официанткой Мариной, которая работает в загадочном баре «Peter Café Sport». Жена и инспектор ищут Давида на острове Пику и все-таки сталкиваются с ним на вершине одноименной горы. Финальная сцена противостояния напоминает греческую трагедию. Приходит время платить по счетам.

A teenage girl's dream of becoming famous turns into a dangerous obsession.

A teenage girl's dream of becoming famous turns into a dangerous obsession.

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years apart. With days passing by, the lines between film and life increasingly become blurred.

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in early 2014. This play was based upon texts by Federico García Lorca. However, the 119th company's show was no ordinary show, for in the cast there were 59 non-actors, amateurs and theatre students.

Documentary about Vale do Côa.

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.

A look at the art of two pairs of brothers, plastic artists: João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz; Pedro Tropa and Francisco Tropa.

В не слишком далеком будущем, престарелый мультимиллионер Стив Баттьер, который, к тому же, неизлечимо болен, принял предложение компании RPG, которое состояло в том, что группа клиентов получает возможность «обрести молодое тело». В течении 10 часов 10 миллионеров со всего мира окажутся снова молодыми и здоровыми. Но у этой «игры» есть вполне реальные правила - каждый час кто-то из них может умереть. В возрасте 23 лет, Стив готов пойти на все, чтобы сохранить эту вечную молодость...

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.

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.

Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.

Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.

Сюжет закручен вокруг мэра небольшой деревушки в южной Португалии, отказывающего одобрить туристический проект. С приездом тысяч туристов весь старый уклад жизни в деревне был бы непременно нарушен. Для того, чтобы заставить мэра согласиться богатый бизнесмен, имеющий собственный интерес в деле, нанимает Марию. Мария должна соблазнить мэра Мейерелеса, и, шантажируя его, заставить поставить свою подпись. С первого взгляда Мейрелес влюбляется в Марию, и, как ни странно, не сопротивляется «соблазнению».

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".

Амару, недавно принявший сан священника, отправляется в небольшой городок для работы в местной приходской. И влюбляется в красавицу Амелию, нарушив строгие правила..

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician. Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy. Joana, the daughter, almost a singer, and Nuts, her boyfriend, almost a filmmaker. Finally the grand father Tobias, a shepherd, almost immortal.

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.

Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer, further and further away (in time and space) from home, and his difficult love life. Therefore he revisits the lands explored 500 years before by the seafarers from his own people: Egypt, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Laos, China... Eventually he must come back.

An artistically shot film that slowly blurs the boundaries between dreams and reality as it builds into an unnerving then touching climax.