A young woman relaxes at a riverfront restaurant, she recounts stories of her past experiences.
A young woman relaxes at a riverfront restaurant, she recounts stories of her past experiences.
«My grandmother had a strength and a love for life so great that led me to believe that some of us are able to escape death and become immortal.» Ruivo’s film is made of many different times and records about a sweet ghost that has left.
An imaginary portrait of pornstar Ashlynn Brooke.
A young girl runs away from her depressing hometown. She meets Skinny and their journey gradually leads them towards trippy settings.
Laëtitia, Roca, Nico, and Naël get together for their final rehearsal. The group will soon no longer exist since Laëtitia is going away to study.
The teenager Alice T. is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Alice is an endless source of problems to her mother and one day she discovers she is pregnant.
Homage to noir, work of science fiction and political fiction. It is, as the full title indicates “a strange adventure of Lemmy Caution”. Secret agent Lemmy Caution goes to the city of Alphaville, where all feelings have been abolished and no one is able to perceive poetry, to try to convince a scientist to return to the “outer planets.” This parable on the future society was entirely filmed in natural settings in and around Paris. Anna Karina opposite Eddie Constantine in a plot “of adventure and love”, “death and mystery” that the characters cross between the meshes of a technocratic dictatorship. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
After committing a homicide, a man hides in the forest. Ico Costa’s “Alva” was shot in the Portuguese highlands, in 16mm, and it follows Henrique, a solitary man running away from his life and from the world.
In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell’Arte).
20 years-old David’s day to day life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, he now finds himself alone with his 7 years-old niece Amanda to care for.
Blacklisted gay communist 1940’s character actor Will Geer became Grandpa Walton in the hit series “The Waltons”. How so?
Performing a magic trick, a 5 years old kid meets an imaginary friend.
When Mrs. Tremayne is poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum) meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter, who quickly pursues him. Programmed together with “Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast” on Mitchum’s career.
Anjo: Lisbon, another blistering summer, parties, old passions and deep jadedness.
Mixing animation and live action, Gros chagrin depicts the failing of a relationship.
Set in the Paris suburbs, teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench. Claire Simon sets up a cinematic dialog with the teens, speaking about their personal history, their family, but also passions and loneliness.
Eugène Green developed En attendant les barbares in an actors’ workshop. A witty satire of the present days. Social networks announce the arrival of the barbarians and the only safe place is a medieval mansion where cell phones are left at the door.
It’s a starry night in a poor neighbourhood in Latin America. Oscar is sleeping in his room when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window he sees… a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle. Oscar will try to save the goldfish through a rampant adventure full of mysterious challenges.