Sergio travels to Guinea-Bissau to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he...
I Only Rest in the Storm
On his deathbed, His Majesty Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories from the time when he dreamt of becoming a...
Will-o'-the-Wisp
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...
The Nothing Factory
Miracles still happen—or so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Looking again at a myth that haunts...
13 Alfinetes
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving...
Where I Grow Old
The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and...
Abandonment
The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to...
In the Darkness of the Theater I Take Off My Shoes
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing...
High Cities of Bone
Judite is a woman of faith, dedicated to her work as a sacristan and to caring for her bedridden husband. When his health worsens, she feels...
Judite, or The First Rebellion
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world...
Crónica Parisiense
They walk in pairs; they go door to door and visit the homes of those who wish to listen. They discuss matters of faith, family, demureness, religion...
Latter-Day Saints
During the summer holidays, a documentary-maker and his 12 year-old son stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon: an empty hotel like the one in the film...
A Scary Movie
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
Los perros
When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...
Cidade Rabat
Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...
An Aviation Field
In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...
Clandestina
How to represent an artistic intention without reducing it to a description? How to do it preserving the intentionality of the gestus in an...
Jotta: a minha maladresse é uma forma de délicatesse
Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery as it slowly devours them.
January
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...
Fire
A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...
The City and The Sun
