Joana Niza Braga

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.

As a result of the pandemic and the economic crisis, there is a widespread revolt in the main cities of the country and Paulo and Cristina, an upper-middle-class couple with a newborn child, only do not join the popular indignation because they agreed, that same night, to organize a dinner for two friends: João, going through a divorce process that plunges him into a strange depression; and Raquel, Cristina's childhood friend who has spent the last few years crossing the planet on a journey of self-discovery. It's a night where, while the world changes outside, people reveal themselves inside, in this apartment where the confrontation between the real and the virtual reveals the most terrible truths.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

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

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.

Девушка-подросток, живущая в приюте вместе с семьёй, устраивает войну против системы, для того чтобы её сёстры остались вместе, и стремится воплотить мечту стать танцовщицей. История о потерянной юности, амбициях и силе.

Метеорит из глубин космоса принёс на Землю нечто жуткое и необъяснимое. Именно на ферме неподалеку от места падения селится Нейтан Гарднер, рассчитывающий отдохнуть от суеты большого города.

Фильм об одной из величайших икон португальской поп-музыки. Антониу Вариасойнш был одним из самых оригинальных музыкантов, когда-либо появлявшихся в Португалии. Антониу Жуакин Родригеш Рибейру преследовал свою мечту стать певцом и композитором, несмотря на то, что не знал нот... Музыкальный успех пришел через несколько лет. Он умер в 1984 году в Лиссабоне, в возрасте 39 лет.

Сади помогает жертвам домашнего насилия сбегать от мучителей — она берёт правосудие в свои руки и начинает методично разбираться с негодяями. Но работа карательницы не так проста, а старые шрамы и раны того и гляди дадут о себе знать.

После жестокого столкновения с людьми своего бывшего криминального босса Рой решает сбежать. Он встречает юную проститутку, которую берет с собой…

Хотели бы вы жить в идеальном мире, где нет преступности, безработицы и войн? Единственная плата за такое счастливое будущее – это одна ночь абсолютного беззакония в году. Ночь, когда дозволено всё. Согласны поучаствовать в таком социальном эксперименте?

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover. “All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn’t invited to the celebration – the frog. In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide.” Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed. In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday. Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position. As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative. Thereby transforming “once upon a time” into “there is”. “Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed”, explains a voice off-camera. Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2016

At an abandoned chapel a teenager gives herself to a boy, unsuspecting of what's lurking in the shadows.

At an abandoned chapel a teenager gives herself to a boy, unsuspecting of what's lurking in the shadows.

Rhoma Acans is a journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity weight of her Gypsy heritage, from the history of his own family to the way it moves away or approaches the story of a young gypsy inside the tradition – Her name is Joaquina.

Rhoma Acans is a journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity weight of her Gypsy heritage, from the history of his own family to the way it moves away or approaches the story of a young gypsy inside the tradition – Her name is Joaquina.