Assistant Director
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness.
Script Supervisor
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
Script Supervisor
По роману Мануэла да Фонсека. Португалия, 1950 год. Пустынный и величественный ландшафт Юга, пронизанный ветром, изнуренный страданием и голодом, сотрясает насилие: в одну ночь происходит чреда хладнокровных убийств. Каковы причины этих преступлений? Эпическая история одной крестьянской семьи, для которой чувство собственного достоинства оказывается сильнее голодающих детей. История основана на романе Мануэла да Фонсеки, который в свою очередь основан на реальной истории о человеке, который в течение трех дней в одиночку оказывал сопротивлении армейским частям.
Encarregado Lavandaria
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack.
First Assistant Director
Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.
Invité du Mariage
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Assistant Director
Мы встречаем Тоню Карреру, звезду ночной жизни Лиссабона, когда в ее жизни все далеко не просто. Двое близких мужчин, любовник и сын, только и делают, что создают поводы для огорчений. Но источник главной проблемы кроется в ней самой: двадцать лет на сцене она убеждала публику, что перестала быть мужчиной — но действительно ли популярное травести-шоу сделало ее женщиной? Единственное утешение Тони – волшебный мир любви, путешествие в который всякий раз придает силы.
Director
An adaptation of "The dream of François Villon" by Antonio Tabucchi
First Assistant Director
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.
Vilaça
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.
Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
