A mother goes shopping and the weight of the bags hurts her. She asks her son for aid and he comes to help her carry the groceries home. As they travel the distance, they also deal with the issues that haunt them.
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We go down to Vale do Ave to learn about the stories of its women — especially that of the director’s grandmother — and their connection to the textile factories, before the end of the Portuguese dictatorship.
With skillful threads, natural disasters are sewn alongside very human disasters. Humor, death, fear are the keys to this composition.
Five friends leave for an adventurous vacation on the Alentejo coast. But their path leads them close to someone Rita longs for but fears to meet again.
Several dates arranged through dating apps, in Buenos Aires, turned into an animated comics. Several women in search of tenderness, love and sex—with varying degrees of success, but always with humour.
Grandson and grandmother perform the gestures of a rural ballad about an encounter with death.
Sónia is a Portuguese badminton player contemplating attending the Olympic Games. But the pandemic isn’t the only surprising event that changes her plans.
The director creates a collage, between filmed images, superimposed animations and a multi-voice narrative that takes us through an exploration of age and growing pains.
It is through an exploration of home movies that the director revisits his childhood, through a lens that questions gender identity, without recognizing who he was.
Nosferasta is a film co-written by and starring Rastafarian artist and musician Oba, which imagines a very particular origin story and reckoning with colonialism. We follow Oba from the time he was bitten by the vampire Christopher Columbus in 1492 to his current post-vampiric existence.
We spent a day with Raquel, who is just trying to be financially independent. Between looking for a job and looking for a house, nothing goes as planned.
In an atmosphere of harmony, Patouille and his bird friend, Momo, discover everything the world of plants has to offer.
We meet a girl who inhabits a red world and is tired of always seeing the same palette. When she can spy new and eye-catching colors, she sets off on an adventure in search of a more colorful world.
Four people take an elevator. But how they behave when they’re alone (putting on lipstick or dancing a bit) and how they behave when they’re all together are two completely different things.
Ursa is a little polar bear that has to brave the Arctic to find his mother. Between the cold and the snow, towards the northern lights, he will encounter different challenges and different animals before reaching his destination.
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, a young boy will also say goodbye to his family and the house where they live.
Astronauts have as a mission to go where no one has been before and discover the unknown. Because everything is alien, or strange, until we get to know it better.
A 1977 film by Chantal Akerman that is made up of a series of shots, long shots of New York — the places where Akerman used to walk by when she lived in the city, like the Times Square subway station, or the path between 10th Avenue and Hell’s Kitchen. As a narrator, we have the voice of the director reading the letters that her mother sent her during the years she spent there, from 1971 to 1973.