Centro Histórico

As we toured through modern Guimarães, the founding city of Portugal, we wondered: What stories does it have to tell? The answer to this question came to us via the voices of four filmmakers with unique visions of cinema, Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice and Manoel de Oliveira, who worked together in the making of this film, each contributing with a short. Things are not what they seem at first: the multiple dimensions of the story are generated by both reality ‚ Erice’s documentary Vidros Partidos ‚ and fiction – Kaurismäki’s O Tasqueiro, Costa’s Sweet Exorcist, and Oliveira’s O Conquistador Conquistado.