Ana and Ricardo just moved in to a new house located in a private estate. Ana relaxes, Ricardo places the books on the shelves, Sofia, the housekeeper does the cleaning. Outside, the neighbors play golf.
Secção: National Competition
Jorge Cramez recalls the film noir heritage in “Two Truck Driver”.)
The Gospel According To John read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus, filmed outdoors, from dawn to sunset, and materialized in the grain of the voice, the expression, control, rhythm and breath of the actor himself.
A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.
As Rosas Brancas is an emotional tale about memory, mourning, faith, loss, and the shifting of family roles in the wake of a death; how to proceed with the mother inside one’s heart?
Retrato is a film about the memory of a place, a home, a family, in a dialogue between portraits hanging on the walls who talk about their feelings, power games, thus creating an atmosphere of mystery and seduction.
Coisa de Alguém is documentary film which depicts the workaday life of a lost and found office in Lisbon, reflecting upon notions of property, loss and retrieval, and the dynamics of a modern complex society.
In As Figuras Gravadas na Faca pela Seiva das Bananeiras the postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique create a fictional colonial memory.
The natural pools of Varadouro on the island of Faial in the Azores suddenly gain a mythological dimension.
Coro dos Amantes is made of three songs that, in two voices, tell the same suffocating event from two different perspectives.
Alentejo, South of Portugal. Dozens of amateur a capella polyphonic choirs gather regularly to sing old polyphonic songs and new lyrics about present times. This is «cante». Born in the taverns and in the fields, sung by miners and peasants, «cante» was transmitted from generation to generation. This film is a journey into present Portugal, discovering «cante» music, and the life of the performers who seem to express the deep voice of the Earth.
Antero just left the prison and heads to his home village driven by revenge and hoping to recover his lost dignity; but time might have turned against him.
Kingdom of Portugal, 1859: Boa Noite Cinderela recovers the tale in a more materialistic and carnal version, where the motivation for finding the girl who lost her shoe might not be the owner herself.
Daddies interviews ten gays who identify themselves as daddies as they undress: while explaining their identity they talk about their relationships, polyamor, their penis and sexual desires
According to its director, Ennui Ennui is about tribal bride trading, Hillary Clinton’s selfie web presence, the drone that calls Obama ‚ÄòDaddy’, the chronic virginity of Libraries without Borders volunteers, and airborne piglets.
Built from 16mm found footage, Implausible Things’ seven sequences create a patchwork of reflective tonality, in which each viewer is subtly invited to leave their conceptions of reason and causality behind.
Jewels is an experimental film about hypnosis, diapausing insects and a broken heart.
Le petit prince au pays qui défile is an intimate portrait of the famous figure skater Stéphane Lambiel, two times world champion and silver medallist at the Turin Winter Olympics, showing the young man distanced from the star he still is.