Francisco, behave! I Know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate….
On an island in French Polynesia a writer returns to her country after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, she is disoriented and in a creative crisis. Faced…
Elric has a gambling addiction: from casino to casino, he plays the roulette table, consumed by a twisted mix of intense pleasure and desperation. His encounter with Suzie throws his…
“Its uniqueness defines also a model – of cinema, of auteur, of a country, of a time – if that model could be established under the form of vagueness and…
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a…
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before…
The marriage of countess Martine is a farce, Martine seems to be only an obstacle on the way to her fortune, which her husband, Armando wants to seize. She is…
With renowned wine importer Martine Saunier as our guide, we journey into Portugal’s spectacular Douro Valley to explore the mystery and complexity of the world of port
A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental…
A soldier is tasked by his government agency to take a box that contains something secret that cannot fall into enemy hands, his entire team is massacred and he finds…
A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship “a floating factory of crazy people.” He rents a room and does little. He writes…
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture. The city is at her feet, and even the…
Paulo works as a night guard in a building site. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances and no regret would ever give him a sense of closure . He…
In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto,…
On a train to the Algarve, Macário tells his story to a sympathetic woman he’s just met. In flashbacks he arrives in Lisbon to work as an accountant and a…
SHE IS THE OCEAN – a full-length documentary about great women. An in-depth exploration into the lives of nine astonishing women from all four corners of the globe. These inspiring…
The architect Phillip Braun is framed by his former employer Lasky that embezzles the money that should be used to buy suitable material of a construction that collapses, killing a…
Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions: to be reconciled to his son, Michael, and, secretly, to ensure he is not…
2019, Edinburgh (Scotland). Eva is a Spanish successful lawyer who is promised to marry Stuart, heir of the aristocratic and wealthy clan Macdonald. But the same day that they announce…
TWO stories of revenge set against historic catastrophes — Great Lisbon Earthquake(1755) and Great East-Japan Earthquake(2011), explore the human condition as they encounter similar tragedies and deja-vus.
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of the continent, finds apparently…
The first story about Renewable Energy Source Cooperative movement in 12 countries in Europe. Among us, there are people who are fighting with big corporations in a different way. Moving…
António runs away from home and tries to spend the night at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment. There he finds a brazilian girl, an unexpected guest. Johnny is struggling to stage his…
1774, a few years before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin – Madame de Dumeval, the Duke of Tesis and the Duke of Wand, libertines expelled from the…
In the end of the 19th century the peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise…
In the London suburbs, Bela and Jota face serious difficulties when “social services” raise concerns about the safety of their three children. The 7-year-old daughter’s deafness triggers a process in…
The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets…
António Variações was a unique man. He was born in a small village in Amares, in the north of Portugal. At an early age, unhappy with his life working at…
The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through…
Roberto is a dandy!An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. He enjoys the aristocratic amusement of astonishment.Women, whom he knows full well in all sorts of styles and races, can…
A 15-year-old Krahô boy called by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast which will allow his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead. Reluctant…
In a port town in northern France, Milla and her boyfriend Leo set up in an empty house that is gradually transformed into a home. Life itself intervenes after Leo…
Filipa César turns his gaze to Guinea-Bissau, where at the beginning of the 1970s the advocates of a militant cinema captured the freedom struggle and the first years of independence.