The Portuguese director’s first feature film points to a palimpsest of cinephile references that never cloud Pedro Costa’s authorial imprint. In this film, Vicente and Nino’s life becomes even more unmoored after the abandonment of their father. Clara tries to help them, but it’s a world where survival is a constant struggle. With Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira and Inês de Medeiros.
A western with Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan that tells the story of the soldier Mike McComb, the determined Georgia Moore and Silver City, where McComb opens a thriving saloon. The film, based on a story by Stephen Longstreet, is known for not having an ending — declared as finished by the studio before it was completed, due to the bad behavior of its stars that led to increased production costs.
The last film by German director F.W. Murnau, it was produced by Robert Flaherty, in turn responsible for Nanook of the North (1922), the first successful feature-length documentary in American cinemas. This film is divided into two parts, “Paradise” and “Paradise Lost”, showing the experience of a couple on a Polynesian island, colonized and explored by western France.
A classic of Portuguese cinema that marks the emergence of Paulo Rocha and the New Cinema wave. Júlio (Rui Gomes) and Ilda (Isabel Ruth), two working-class youngsters trying to make it in Lisbon, will see their relationship marked by tragedy.
A protagonist in limbo, with a precarious work situation, a temporary home location. And a hidden facet of his life that he reveals to few.
A delicate film, like a dollhouse, that shows a touching connection between grandmother and grandson and how both function as each other’s safe havens — especially when a naughty character tries to instill some fears in them.
It all starts when a bear accidentally swallows a fly. But her buzzing in his belly drives him to desperate action. This is when it all goes downhill.
A documentary animation that answers all the questions anyone ever thought they might have about cucus.
Dame Tartine’s house is made of butter and her bed of biscuits. But that’s just the beginning of a delicious adventure.
A baby boar thinks he has found the cause of his nightmares in a spider. But his mother will make him see the magic she can weave.
After a heavy snowfall, a shepherd and his dog are on a mission to deal with the sheep they care for. But, first, they’ll have to find them and, then, gather them. But with a little music, everything can be done.
Três Dias Sem Deus is the first feature film directed by a woman in Portugal. It is also a film that premiered at Cannes, despite being panned by national critics. And it’s a work of which only an incomplete fragment remains, yet it still allows us to pay her homage.
Musician and DJ (and composer and journalist, among others) Questlove signs — in his own name, as Ahmir Khalib Thompson — this documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The festival lasted six weeks and featured performances by Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone. But it got lost in the collective memory.
Live from the centre of the earth takes our primal bond to music back into the prehistoric cave. When the pandemic halted all tours, Jarvis Cocker’s new band, Jarv Is…, decided to perform their new album deep inside a cave in England. Captured by BAFTA nominated directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth). THIS IS NOT A LIVE FILM – it’s an ALIVE FILM.
In the Air Tonight is, according to Phil Collins, a song about divorce. But for years, there’s been an urban myth that imagines it as something very different. This legend is re-imagined with a dreamlike narration that transforms – with a wink – the song’s experience.
Two minutes of a sidereal trip, in which colorful aliens of enigmatic origins (do they come from space or from the deepest ocean?) simply have fun together.
With one foot in the United States and the other in Kashmir, the film draws a line between the Kashmir-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the director’s father and a letter to the leader of the Communist Party, Prabhakar Sanzgiri – also a relative.
C just wants to find a being with whom he can feel the tenderness of closeness and intimacy. In successive stages, C discovers the ups and downs of finding what he wants and then losing it. Between solitude and companionable touch.