António Porém Pires

Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only true question: is surviving the same as living?

A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other.

VIEIRARPAD begun with the correspondence between the couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szènes, between 1932-1961. The letters and the intimacy of their words are pretext for the exploration of an equally intimate visual journey

Full moon. Inside. Perhaps not alone.

After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighborhood transports her on a spiritual journey, whose destination reveals a painful bond with her homeland.

In a world polluted by atomic radiation, five survivors find shelter in an underground bunker. The sudden discovery of a rare and miraculous medicine will become a source of quarrel within the group.

In a world polluted by atomic radiation, five survivors find shelter in an underground bunker. The sudden discovery of a rare and miraculous medicine will become a source of quarrel within the group.

In the year 74 BC, Titus Lucretius Carus, a young man with bold ideas, tries to convince his friend Memio that moving to the city of Rome to study is a total waste of time. Years later, Lucretius returns from the capital. Trying to find a balance between his explanations of the natural world and his emotional experience of it, Lucretius lives a deep and troubled passion with his foreign wife Isa.

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.

Через несколько лет после окончания гражданской войны в Испании Аншо возвращается в галисийскую деревню, где он родился. В своем путешествии он узнает, как сильно изменилась Испания во время правления Франсиско Франко. «Длинная ночь» – это поэтическая медитация об истории Испании, основанная на книгах, романах и мемуарах испанских писателей двадцатого века.

Через несколько лет после окончания гражданской войны в Испании Аншо возвращается в галисийскую деревню, где он родился. В своем путешествии он узнает, как сильно изменилась Испания во время правления Франсиско Франко. «Длинная ночь» – это поэтическая медитация об истории Испании, основанная на книгах, романах и мемуарах испанских писателей двадцатого века.

The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.

Критически оценивая современное общество и пронизывающее его социальное отчаяние, фильм встает на сторону тех, кто мечтает и не теряет надежды. Саломея устраивается на летнюю работу сторожем на свалке в деревне своего детства, которую она покинула много лет назад. Под солнцем Западной Франции в этом необычном месте ее бунтарская юность находится в тисках естественного, почти безлюдного, окружения. Но из неожиданных встреч и общих переживаний зарождается надежда на новую жизнь, даже если пока это только утопия...

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and me.

Love, fear and anxiety. A couple spends their last night together, in Lisbon, before one of them leaves for another country. A romantic night gives way to unspoken tensions in their life's turbulent present and the world's uncertain future.

Его дом - война. Ее дом - Португалия. И все же молодая жена лорда фон Кеттена намерена сделать жилище своего мужа, негостеприимный замок на скале в северной Италии, своим домом. В течение одиннадцати долгих лет, пока он отсутствует, она строит здесь свою жизнь.

Его дом - война. Ее дом - Португалия. И все же молодая жена лорда фон Кеттена намерена сделать жилище своего мужа, негостеприимный замок на скале в северной Италии, своим домом. В течение одиннадцати долгих лет, пока он отсутствует, она строит здесь свою жизнь.

Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.

This short documentary meditates on the last remaining farmer from a once thriving agricultural hillside in Yorkshire. With none of his three children wanting to take over the business, Carson Lee ruminates on his commitment to his working life during difficult times and the fast changing landscape around him.