A young, inexperienced film critic, François, has a girlfriend and falls in love with a well-established female colleague, Rosa. A kinky relationship develops between the two of them, leading François to discover the inner workings of desire: desire of a woman and of a critic. Until the day his cheating is discovered.
One evening, my grandfather Tahar died in palliative care. Zouina, his stepdaughter is there. Aziz, his son is there. Fayçal is there. I am there. God is not there? Kamel arrives too late.
A road movie through the changes in the the portuguese landscape and cities in the last 30 years, looking mostly at the areas involved in the European Football Cup of 2004 that took place in Portugal.
Coming from the high mountains of Portugal, uncle Zé arrived to Lisbon when he was still a young man, carrying with himself a very special way to deal with everyone. He built a small world in a space where he feels free.
Lisbon, 1972. Olga is a young woman with an easy life, being part of a bourgeois rich family. She attends university and society parties, plays tennis and spends afternoons in the swimming pool with her friends. She knows she’s different, her skin is not white, her body moves at a rhythm too intense. Olga faces the signs of that disquieting reality but prefers to ignore them. When her father returns from Angola after 20 years abroad, her fantastic world falls apart. Never having known her mother is like a wound that does not heal. Olga doesn’t know who she is or where she came from so she begins a search for her own identity and freedom. Olga gets involved with other people, other ways of living and with the theater. As an actress she realizes that the struggle of emotions and memories is made through the skin.
After the demolition of a poor neighborhood and the relodging of its inhabitants, lies an empty place. This film is about this place, the encounters, histories and activities which define it.
Ana is a child, an adult, tall, fat, thin… Ana is the part of us that sometimes wakes up without knowing who she is. These conscious amnesia that makes us travel, ask, look forward, even when it is not clear where we go and who we can find.
Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André are the members of a rock’n’roll band called Bunnyranch, one of the most interesting portuguese bands. They are from Coimbra, a place where there is a specific context on the rock’n’roll portuguese scene. Something is going to happen that will change the band forever.
Wanderings through a sordid and abandoned Lisbon, after the graphic work by Stuart de Carvalhais.
The fishes, the dogs and the birds. 3 little animal’s adventures reflecting the children’s preoccupations: being more clever than the big ones, being fair, honest and getting united with friends.
In an imaginary island in the Azores, a community shuts itself around Edmundo, a rural aristocrat, patriarchal figure, who has just lost his wife has she gave birth to a girl. Edmundo pronounces the island to be in mourning. Edmundo prohibits any sort of sex and the island is shut into Edmundo’s mourning, through solidarity and obedience to the old master. Adriana grows in these times; she is one of the last children to be born after the aristocrat’s proscription. The years go by. The desertification of the island is at stake and Edmundo declares he has taken a drastic decision. Edmundo announces his decision to send to the mainland, to a trustworthy friend, his daughter Adriana so that she can set up a family trough natural means. Adriana arrives in the mainland. Right at the airport she is robbed by an elegant Luiza Menezes who also takes her identity. Lost in Lisbon, Adriana will be helped by Estela and her son, who takes her at night to a transvestites’, trough a misterious Lisbon.
The look of Mariana covers the patio of high walls. Joana is back there. The expectation of a friendship. Everything to learn. Everything is very fast. The drawing of Joana. Tumbling of a bottle of red ink. The image of Mariana in the mirror. The guilt confuses her: who made to overthrow the bottle? Was it her?
A series of human-like matches burn. Each head lites the next on a disturbing and stetic chain reaction. Through fire, they gain new life.
She passes, he follows her. He loses her. The memories of other exits, of other meetings come to his memory. He finds her again. The persecution continues. She meets with another one. She hugs him. He returns, head down. She follows him… She also had a Shadow in the Soul.
A life in a suspended beat; in the search of will instruments, to achieve true freedom. Sérgio discovers his way to freedom.
Cosme, an easygoing cosmonaut with a turbulent live, finds himself roaming a backwater sector of a space with no gas and in for one heck of a surprise.
George and Sara are a young couple on the edge of separating. George feels they could give it another chance. Sara is no longer sure of what she feels.
“A Man” is a story about a man called George, a dishwasher who lives in a trailer and he meets Constance his old girlfriens who has left her husband. In the end, Constance returns to her husband.