Screenplay: Mariana Ricardo

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Teresa Madruga · Laura Soveral · Ana Moreira · Carloto Cotta

Synopsis A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past:...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · João Pedro Bénard · Isabel Muñoz Cardoso · Margarida Carpinteiro

Synopsis A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second instalment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere, a trial involving stolen cows turns farcical and a dog...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Maren Ade · Donatello Brida · Jaime Pereira · Jean-Pierre Rehm

Synopsis On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Sónia Bandeira · Fábio Oliveira · Joaquim Carvalho · Andreia Santos

Synopsis In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make babies. If...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Miguel Gomes · Carloto Cotta · Adriano Luz · Rogério Samora

Synopsis This unconventional blend of documentary and fantasy uses the stories-within-stories structure of the classic Arabian Nights to explore the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Among the tales: A group of bankers discover a cure for impotence, a...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Gonçalo Waddington · Jani Zhao · João Pedro Vaz

Synopsis Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the...

Direction Maureen Fazendeiro · Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Carloto Cotta · João Monteiro

Synopsis Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Bernardo Alves · Chico Chapas · Carloto Cotta

Synopsis Scheherazade continues to tell stories in order to stay alive in the third and final film of Miguel Gomes' epic about the lives of ordinary people in contemporary, austerity-stricken Portugal. Among the tales: The Grand Vizier fears for Scheherazade's life,...

Direction João Nicolau

Cast Luísa Cruz · Miguel Lobo Antunes · Américo Silva · Duarte Guimarães

Synopsis Retirement is coming soon for Luís Rovisco. The songs he dreams up during the day make up for all the injustices in his life. But standing before the receptionist Lucinda, he finds himself singing to a different tune…

Direction Manuel Mozos

Cast António Mortágua · Madalena Almeida · Fernanda Neves · Vítor Correia

Direction João Nicolau

Cast Manuel Mesquita · Luis Lima Barreto · Nuno Pino Custódio · Pedro Faro

Synopsis Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact.

Direction João Nicolau

Cast Felipe Mesquita · Sandra Marcos · Nuno Rodrigues · Helena Carneiro

Synopsis A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.

Direction Telmo Churro

Cast Pedro Inês · Márcia Breia · Maria João Pinho · Denise Fraga

Synopsis Tiago, a tour guide, has had his heart broken. With his father, an old sailor, and his teenage son, he will take a melancholic Brazilian tourist on a tour through defeat and grief.