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Bad Living 2023 star_border 6.1
In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

Living Bad 2023 star_border 6
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

Alma Viva 2022 star_border 6.2
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.

Sita - A vida e o tempo de Sita Valles 2022

Fojos 2020
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.

Herdeiros de Saramago: Gonçalo M. Tavares 2020
Novelist Gonçalo M. Tavares is presented as a successor to Nobel Prize winning portuguese writer José Saramago.

Made in Bangladesh 2019 star_border 6.3
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.

Sonhámos Um País 2019
In the early 70s, Camilo de Sousa left Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, travelled Europe, joined the Frelimo guerrilla and became a filmmaker. Now living in Portugal, he returns to Mozambique to be reunited with two former comrades in arms. With Aleixo Caindi and Julião Papalo, he recalls ancient times, when the joy of liberation made way for dark times and the quest for a ‘new man’ destroyed a country’s dreams and illusions.

Viagem aos Makonde 2019
A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 - Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that will gradually unravel the circumstances in which these original filming were made, during the period of Portuguese domination of Mozambique, based on Margot Dias' unpublished diary and other texts and sounds, from archives related to the colonial period. But it's also these materials' confrontation with the people we are meeting on the trip to Mozambique, to whom we want to return part of its history.

Invisible Hero 2019 star_border 7
Duarte, a visually impaired fifty-year-old, sets out to look for Leandro, his Cape Verdean friend. Despite the heat of a Lisbon summer, Duarte wanders through the streets of his neighborhood, but no one seems to have seen or to have even known Leandro. Duarte's investigation will lead him deep into the night, and will ultimately reveal his secret.

Diary of Beiras 2017
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.

Fátima 2017 star_border 6
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

The Day of My Wedding 2016
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

Portugal: One Day at a Time 2015 star_border 7
A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.

Getulio 2014 star_border 6.8
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at rua Toneleros, Rio de Janeiro, in which Major Vaz was assassinated instead. Investigations pointed to Gregório Fortunato, chief of Vargas' personal guard, as the orderer of the frustrated assassination. This incident was one of the most importants in the history of Brazil.

Raul Brandão was a Great Writer... 2012 star_border 4
This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

Blood of My Blood 2011 star_border 7.2
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

Pedro Calapez: Trabalhos do Olhar 2010
An expedition through the painter's work, following his work at his studio and observing some of his recent exhibitions as well as several other works for public display.

Joana Vasconcelos: Coração Independente 2010
Documentary on the work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos.

Todi 2009
Dramatized documentary about the life and work of Luísa Rosa de Aguiar, know as Luísa Todi, Soprano, considered the most celebrated singer in Portugal.

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Caminhos da Alma - Fátima 2017
The pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima.