É consideravelmente admirável da tua parte que ainda penses em mim como se aqui estivesse creates a hallucinating environment which reflects the despair of Zé, a schizophrenic musician who wants to return to the stages.
Secção: Brand New
An anonymous and discreet man sits at his usual coffee after work, to kill time. Life has been like this for many years now – home, work, coffee, home. While smoking endless cigarettes, he watches.
A documentary that features memories from several former resident students from the Holy Cross Campus. These are memories that build an identity to this place, even when in reality the campus faces its destruction. These memories will never be destroyed.
Fire dances. Smoke dances hypnotically. Fire dances with the dancing smoke.
It’s not abandon, deterioration or destruction. It’s a territory conflict between Man and Nature, in which he takes possession of pieces of land to build his spaces. But when man ceases to preserve its space, Nature comes back with all forces to recover a territory that has never ceased to belong to her, slowly creating human ruins.
It is the dawn of a morning. Tiago returns home but not alone – he brings a stranger with him, still intoxicated after a night out discovery the bars of the town he is visiting. He has a plane to catch in a few hours.
In The Tales of Things we delve into the vast and intimate world of an antique shop. We analise it carefully. The ambience is solemn evocation. We hear whispers. Some sentences are perceptible from the rest. They speak of past livings and wonderful mysterious stories the objects hold. The shop swarms of shelved objects. Old china is held, exposed, as are porcelain dolls, toy cars and tin soldiers. Whispers fill the air, one after the other.
A woman spends her days alone at home. At night, her husband returns but avoids communication. The closed doors and the silent hallways are the territory of fears and hopes. In dreams, past and future blend together.
Ali is Turkish and has a tailoring shop. He built a mannequin. Her name is Chantal. Everyday he perfects her. He takes her home and retouches her details. And everyday he puts her back by his shop window.
In an impersonal emotional universe, characterized by anonymous experiences where everything is opaque, uncertain and elusive, Soulleimane is an illegal immigrant who is trapped in the search for a solution to his problem. Then he knows Teresa. The narrative of a slow fading of expectation experienced in the frailty of a brief encounter between two marginal characters.
In a thorough job of housekeeping, Mary, divorced, finds a box of slides and photographs.
This film portrays a drastic change in the way Portuguese society lives today. Using clothes and moods of characters in accordance with sound, taking them from a high and secure point to a final descent, entering a personal and social disruption.
Shot in super 8, Goodbye Mr. António draws inspiration from a text by Fernando Pessoa.
Adolfo is a boy who steals chickens to make evil experiences in his basement. His plan is to turn all people into chickens so he can dominate the world, but something goes wrong and Adolfo turns out to be a victim of his own wickedness.