Cinematography: Acácio de Almeida

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Synopsis The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of its culture and its visions of life and hereafter.

Direction Margarida Cordeiro · António Reis

Cast Albino S. Pedro · Carlos Margarido · Mariana Margarido · Armando Manuel

Synopsis Trás-os-Montes is a Portuguese independent docufictional and ethnofictional feature film that takes it name from the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes from which the film emanated.

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Armanda Bacelar · Aurélie Chazelle · Luis Gaspar da Silva · José de Freitas

Synopsis Manoel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit aka Les destins de Manoel) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), arriving in...

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast José María Branco · Manuela de Freitas · Miguel Gonçalves · Sara Marques

Synopsis Loosely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who didn't write anything and who blows at night the breath of frozen air. These words come from a poem by Carlos Queiroz. Although they...

Direction Margarida Cordeiro · António Reis

Cast Ana Maria Martins Guerra · Octávio Lixa Filgueiras · Mariana Margarido · Adelaide Ferreira

Synopsis Ana combines straight-on documentary technique with unexpected flights of dreamlike surrealism. The title character, played by Ana Maria Martins Guerra, is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of...

Direction Margarida Cordeiro · António Reis

Cast António Manuel Baptista · Constança Capdeville · Carlos Alberto Gomes · Ana Clara Guerra Marques

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Manuela de Freitas · Maria de Saisset · Bárbara Vieira · Alberto Inácio

Synopsis Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.

Direction Basilio Martín Patino

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Maria Gonçalves · Bruno Terra · Sophie Balabanian · Manuela de Freitas

Synopsis An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and João can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where...

Direction António Reis

Cast Jaime Fernandes

Synopsis The world, life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a peasant born in Barcos, Portugal, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 38 and interned in a sanatorium in Lisbon, where he died at the age of 69....

Direction Rui Simões

Synopsis Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Laura Morante · Philip J. Spinelli · Manuela de Freitas · Gerd Volkmar

Synopsis When Laura Rossellini decides to leave Portugal with her children, she is absolutely convinced that she will never return and that she is leaving forever behind a "dead country". However, almost a year later, in a pleasant holidays atmosphere, in...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Manuela de Freitas · Luís de Sousa Costa · Francisco Domingues · Carmen Duarte

Synopsis A poetic journey in the heart of Portugal. They were two: a man and a woman that met and travelled down from Trás-os-Montes to the sea. Legends and steep rocks, faces and sounds...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast María de Medeiros · Teresa Madruga · Luis Miguel Cintra · Jorge Silva Melo

Synopsis In order to expand his domain, Dom Rodrigo, plans the wedding of one of his daughters with a young and rich neighbour: Dom Paio. He has two daughters: Silvia, born in wedlock and Suzana who is illegitimate. He goes to...

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Eric Alfieri · Mathilde Altaraz · Muriel Boulay · Christophe Delachaux

Synopsis Based on a choreography by Jean-Claude Gallotta, this movie shows the sexual repressions existing between the dancers, five males and four women, before a conciliating final.

Direction Jacques Rozier

Cast Bernard Menez · Luis Rego · Yves Afonso · Abdel Kedadouche

Synopsis "Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The...

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Eva Truffaut · Pierre Léon · Rita Durão · Anna Leppänen

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Hugues Quester · Anne Alvaro · Melvil Poupaud · Duarte de Almeida

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Rita Durão · Fernando Rodrigues · Hugo Tourita · Duarte Martins

Synopsis Rita Azevedo Gomes’ sumptuous, painterly and unabashedly theatrical adaptation of a short story from Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s 1874 anthology Les Diaboliques, tells the tale of Roberto, a bored, decadent dandy in the nightly pursuit of ever-harder-to-find distraction. One evening, his...

Direction Pedro Costa

Cast Pedro Hestnes · Nuno Ferreira · Inês de Medeiros · Luis Miguel Cintra

Synopsis Little is explained in this enigmatic drama. Vincente (Pedro Hestnes Ferreira) and Nino (Nuno Ferreira) have learned to cope so well with their father's frequent unexplained absences that when he apparently disappears for good, they have no difficulty continuing as...