Histories of Wolves

This film collects stories related with wolves in the north of Portugal: myth, death, things that may or may not have happened.

Icenose

In an icy cold world lives Moco. A constant snot is hanging down his nose, making it hard for him to breathe.

In a Foreign Country

In a Foreign Country is the “cinematographic transcription” of a Herberto Hélder’scensured text.

How We Live – Messages to the Family

Gustav Deutsch edits together a series of old home movies, produced by emigrants scattered around the world. Their films served, at the time, as newsreels for the neighbors and relatives who could not travel. But nowadays, moving images still have this power.

In the Open

On a Corsican island about 130 men are detained in what is the only “open prison” in France. A place that receives mostly pedophiles approaching the end of the sentence. The director invades this strange territory and surprisingly meets several men who want to talk to him.

Let the Corpses Tan

InLaissez bronzer les cadavres, the western, the gangster film and the erotica are mixed together in a Mediterranean standoff of close-ups, saturated colors, gunshots, leather jackets and suitcases filled with gold.

Let the Storm

Passion and love are told of by two intersecting relationships and a sad ballad: Merencória.

Let’s Dance

Dansons maintenant portrays three young people wandering through the night towards a joyful and devastating celebration.

A Bit Lost

Little Owl has fallen from his nest and landed on the ground. Now he is lost, and his mummy is nowhere to be seen! With the earnest help of his new friend Squirrel, Little Owl goes in search of animals that fit his description of Mummy Owl.

A Gentle Creature

Adapting the eponymous Dostoevsky’s short story, Loznitsa finds a surrealistic melodrama that is a potent political metaphor on Russia today. With this film (and Victory Day) the director continues his dismantling of the Soviet regime’s identitary ruins.

A Paris Education

Etienne starts studying Film Directing in Paris and there he makes a series of friends who will challenge his ideas of what is, or should be, cinema. Discussions about Pasolini and Sorrentino, betrayals, loves and envy in a melancholic film about life and art.

Anywhere in Between

Kety, Mirela and Kevin are three siblings that are part of a circus family. In spite of their age difference, each one of them as a very important role for the preservation of the circus and their own motivations to choose an itinerant lifestyle.

Beast Land

Beast Land is an ode to the donkey, probably the only nihilist animal.

Bullet Points for a Revolution

Bullet Points for a Revolution is inspired by Gonçalo M. Tavares’ O Torcicologologista, Excelência, where dance, performance and word games come together.

Bye-bye

One day the director and her two sisters receive a letter from their father saying he doesn’t want to see them for 6 months. That letter is now 12 years old: Doei.

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

At the National Conservatory Dance School, kids dream of becoming dancers. This is a space where skills and passions are put to the test in three fundamental moments: the selection, the end of the 9th grade when a decision has to be made and, finally, the stage premiere.