Videoteca

A Casa de Dentro Carlos Nogueira 2023
Can an artist be the protagonist of his life and interpret a film about himself? Is the artwork a redemption for our troubled times? with this question We set out in search of a project for a house and its thousand faces that accompany Carlos Nogueira. A demiurge with a diverse and vast work like the landscapes of Mozambique where he grew up. Multidisciplinary artist, where all his gestures enunciate a sublime trait, whose craft and purpose in his life reveals itself as a work of art.

Primeira Obra 2023 star_border 1
Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.

No País de Alice 2021
With this trip, an intergenerational sharing begins: with Portugal present as a backdrop, the director and a little daughter wander as if in question, trying to understand the country of today.

Os Fotocines 2021
In 'Os Fotocines', an intimate portrait of the war is built with those who lived it. This documentary feature film aims to investigate who were those, that in the Portuguese colonial war, lived with the simultaneous responsibility of fighting, defending their own lives and also, of permanently recording that same collective mission, through cameras and shooting, as well as screening.

Adeus Senhor António 2020
Film adaptation of "The letter from the hunchback to the locksmith" by Fernando Pessoa's heteronym Maria José.

How Many Times Have You Dreamt About Me? 2018
Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.

Arte de Peregrinar 2018

Imensa Saudade 2018
Documentary by Rui Simões, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of Expo 98, one of the biggest exhibitions that Portugal hosted

Teus olhos castanhos de encantos tamanhos 2018
The story of a homeless man and his journey.

The House 2017
Built in the New State to control the overseas students, the House of the Students of the Empire, situated in Lisbon with delegations in Coimbra and Porto, was fundamental in the fight for independence of the Portuguese colonies. Future leaders of the Liberation Movement, like Agostinho Neto and Amílcar Cabral, passed through this meeting point. The documentary The House restores the memories of the testimonies of the survivors of the House, fictionalizing in parallel excerpts of Pepetela´s “The Generations of Utopia”.

From Coal to Waste - The Return to São Pedro da Cova 2017
40 years later, Rui Simões returns to São Pedro da Cova to exhibit the photographs he took during the directing of São Pedro da Cova's films. From this reencounter a new message to the centralised powers: now it's toxic waste that is threatening people's health. 40 years later. From coal to waste, the fight goes on.

Zootrópio 2016
A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. By turning it, the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

Entre Pedras 2016
Peruvian sculptor Silvia Westphalen reencounters friends, places and pieces of work in the company of the director Rui Simões

Guerra ou Paz 2014
100,000 Portuguese young men left for war in the countrie's former colonies. In the same period, 100,000 fled the country so as to not be part of that war. What was the former's role in shaping Portugal?

Between the Scenes 2014
A documentary filmed during the shooting of Os Maias - (Alguns) episódios da vida romântica, the cinematic adaptation directed by João Botelho of the homonymous novel by Eça de Queirós. Following the cast in and out of scenes of the period film In-Between Scenes takes on its role as an extension to the history of the Maias family, exposing the lies of cinema, moving in between reality and fiction.

Ole António Ole 2013
Documentary about the work and life of António Ole, one of the most notable contemporary artists from Angola.

Kolá San Jon é Festa di Kau Berdi 2012
This documentary follows a group of habitants from Cova da Moura neighborhood into a journey to Cape Verde, to celebrate St. John festivities. Recovering the rituals and rhythms of these festivities, the cape verdean people living in that neighborhood near Lisbon, try to recover their roots and transmit it to their children.

In Honour of St. Gualter 2012
Frei Gualter is sent by S. Francisco de Assis to Guimarães around 1213. The devotion to this franciscan friar started to rise and in 1577 the brotherhood of S. Gualter is created. The Gualterianas are celebrated since 1906, the new way of celebration in honor of their patron.

Theatre of Dreams 2012
Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.

Natália, a Diva Trágicómica 2011
Documentary about the life of the lyric singer Natália de Andrade.

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