A portrayal of aging and dealing with illness in rural Portugal. Maria waits for eye surgery, since she has become almost blind. Her dependence will awake in some of Maria’s neighbors, and also in her distant daughter, a feeling of compassion that seemed lost.
Departing from extra acts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters have Lisbon as background.
A documentary on the sculptor João Cutileiro focusing on his works that were created to be displayed on public spaces. The artist reflects on his career as we visit several of his most iconic works, scattered throughout Portugal.
In 1990, an obsessive Macanese cop (played by director Doug Chan himself) unravels two murders, eleven years apart. The film is based on the director’s childhood memories and extends a short film which was presented at IndieLisboa 2017.
Sara is a Portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas. These first two episodes of a RTP series are an acidic satire on the Portuguese audiovisualmilieu.
Pass On explores how home education may greatly influence the development of the city in a subtle and gradual manner.
Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. One day, the ox steps into a mine – the result of the civil war in the country – and explodes.
A documentary that accompanies the discovery of the city of Lisbon by the artist Faustin Linyekula, through the work he developed in 2017 together with senior students of National Theatre School and the various shows he presented at the main cultural halls of the capital.
A performance-film (by the kaleidoscopic director Edgar Pêra) that is an homage to Alberto Pimenta, a poet, writer, thinker but also a performer. One of the most important Portuguese artists, provocateur by nature and political nonconformant by faith.
InKaCha, a boy is scared to get a haircut by a cannibal looking barber.
Illegalist: two mainland Chinese come work illegally in Macao: one at a construction site and the other as a sex-worker.
During China’s big famine, Flower gets sick due to malnutrition, which leads her father to steal some millet, with devastating consequences:Between the Lies.
A group of mexican actors travels to the city of Guimarães to present their theatrical version of Frida Kahlo. Between cultural misunderstandings and the desire of a true encounter, rises the importance of the word and the reason to say it.
An American writer visits the ancient Portuguese Gothic town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice little trip goes terrible wrong when his own paranoia takes over the events that follow…or maybe not.
In the first episode of the Streetscapes series, the urban landscape of Tbilisi meets the studio recording of Kreidler’s new music album ABC and Emigholz’s own journal, filled with movie tickets, letters and notes.
Can one wolf and three little pigs help us fight laziness?
A beautiful yellow canary plays beatbox in Canary Beat.
A mysterious cake triggers the determination of a night shift security guard Chow Keung, to search the source of the taste of sweetness in his life.