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A poetic and touching documentary about a young woman’s fight against cancer.
Lisbon, 1972. Olga is a young woman with an easy life, being part of a bourgeois rich family. She attends university and society parties, plays tennis and spends afternoons in the swimming pool with her friends. She knows she’s different, her skin is not white, her body moves at a rhythm too intense. Olga faces the signs of that disquieting reality but prefers to ignore them. When her father returns from Angola after 20 years abroad, her fantastic world falls apart. Never having known her mother is like a wound that does not heal. Olga doesn’t know who she is or where she came from so she begins a search for her own identity and freedom. Olga gets involved with other people, other ways of living and with the theater. As an actress she realizes that the struggle of emotions and memories is made through the skin.
After the demolition of a poor neighborhood and the relodging of its inhabitants, lies an empty place. This film is about this place, the encounters, histories and activities which define it.
Ana is a child, an adult, tall, fat, thin… Ana is the part of us that sometimes wakes up without knowing who she is. These conscious amnesia that makes us travel, ask, look forward, even when it is not clear where we go and who we can find.
A film with images from the life of a chimney sweeper and his need for contact with the opposite sex.
Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André are the members of a rock’n’roll band called Bunnyranch, one of the most interesting portuguese bands. They are from Coimbra, a place where there is a specific context on the rock’n’roll portuguese scene. Something is going to happen that will change the band forever.
It takes certain breed of men and women to live and work in such an environment. The cold, the darkness and the isolation affects each one in different ways. Life seems to loose some of its essential components in these conditions, where sometimes the distinction between what is real and what is surreal disappear… Loeffen, and his beloved dog companion Blackie are about to drive to the nearest settlement Zama, some 150 miles away. It will take him the full daylight time to drive and buy supplies for the rig crew. He can not help but feel giddy about his trip; just to escape the work and the elements; to get away from the routine, even if it happens to be for the shortest day of the year. Zama is isolated in the woods and far from the highways. It makes no sense to an outsider to consider Zama as a destination of any sort but for Loeffen it is a welcome change if nothing else. This small settlement in the middle of nowhere gives Loeffen more than he bargained, as fate and destiny conspire to bring him to an isolated cabin outside Zama for one bitterly cold night – the longest night of the year.
When a boy and a girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?
An 18 year-old-girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is asked to play Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy’s last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl’s life. Is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?
While hopping around in a rural and peaceful scenery Rufus finds a flower. Just as he wants to pick and smell it, another playmate appears. Rufus is delighted and immediately starts playing with him. Unfortunately all good things come to an end….
In a unknown apocalytical time a monkey faces a roman in a Portuguese football stadium, designed by architect Eduardo Souto Moura.
Imagine what could have happened if construction of the ark had been outsourced to somebody else. One of many possible scenarios…
A pill-popping, over-caffeinated driver accidentally hits something. Panic-stricken, he seeks help in a strange and desolate town that offers very little in human kindness.
A tale of the loneliness and exclusion of a troubled soul, lost and trapped in a world which he feels he does not belong to. Through a series of events he is lead on a fantastical journey on which he discovers his purpose, his place and his destiny.
A street in Oakland. Early morning hours. A motion. Music. A few sound bits. Someone paints the wall of a studio. Colors. Broken televisions. A street in Oakland. Early morning hours. A motion. Different music. Columbus. End.
A stunning portrait of a musical and artistic genius who nearly slipped away. As an artist suffering from manic depression with delusions of grandeur, Daniel Johnston’s wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals, and periodic respites are exposed in this deeply moving documentary. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON artfully melds current footage, vintage performances, home movies, and dozens of recorded audio tapes from Daniel’s life. Testimony from supportive friends and a deeply committed family add a rich layer to his personal history, but it is Daniel’s poetic songs interwoven throughout the film, that tell their own passionate, haunting, and truly unforgettable story. Now in his mid 40s, Daniel Johnston has grown into a prolific visual artist. He has recorded over ten full length albums, and his supporters have included Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, Matt Groening, The Butthole Suffers, Sonic Youth, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Beck, The Flaming Lips, and an ever-growing international cult audience.
Please don’t think I’m weak, I couldn’t turn the other cheek.