“The Pimp and His Trophies” is a recollection of a family brothel by a young child.)
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Captain Falcon was the national fascist superhero that Portugal and António de Oliveira Salazar were waiting for. The rest is history.)
An obese child plays with his merciless friends. Clumsy, he accidentally falls from a cliff and plunges into the sea, where he discovers a marvelous universe.
Three poor fishermen have to live together with dreadful pirates and a strange creature from the sea.
“The Noisemaker” shows us a professor fighting against reality — a school without students.)
Surreal images hidden in the sky dance to the words of Federico García Lorca.)
Together with his teenaged sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. When new adoptive parents discover mysterious head wounds on their children, teen detectives visit the island to launch an investigation. As the investigation progresses, the kids are led into the darkest regions of revelation and repression as the terrible secrets of Guy’s family are revealed.
Ana and Paul visit a home improvement store. While Paul is busy over his mobile phone, Ana befriends Robert, a shop assistant. The three of them wander through the store aisles, trying to get everything for a happy home.
“The Satanic Thicket – One” builds on the despair that lurks behind the silence of a family hiding away in a deep forest.)
An artistic puzzle between theatre, cinema, and a mysterious crime through the voice of playwright Edmond Rostand.)
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.
Agathe spends her holidays alone by the seaside. In the emptiness of her days, she finds something to do: a sport beyond her physical capabilities. Who cares! The point is to push past her limits.
A private look into a BDSM cell.)
Charles Darwin travelled half the world away to study animals and species – a small armadillo will show us how many are them.)
Derek, an asthmatic misanthropic bicycle enthusiast and his sensitive all-American sitcom-loving cousin Bruno live together in a small house in Trenton, New Jersey. The two opposites try, with difficulty, to get along.
On a trip to the lake, twelve-year old Erik feels deeply attracted to the father of his friend So?e, and hatches a plan to express the extent of his love.
The digital era spared the use of gloves in editing — but not a more delicate look when looking at the hours of images until finding the body of a film and, later, its spirit. Even more in the case of Manoel de Oliveira and editor Valérie Loiseleux (“Abraham’s Valley”, 1993; “The Convent”, 1995; “I’m Going Home”, 2001; “Magic Mirror”, 2005; “The Strange Case of Angélica”, 2010; “Gebo and the Shadow”, 2012).)
Catarina Mourão has become one of the most delicate filmmakers in Portuguese cinema. The director now presents a portrait of another figure in Portuguese cultural history: her grandfather and writer Tomaz de Figueiredo. A film that gently unveils a family separated by his death through stories written in a country controlled by the fascist dictatorship. )