Soundtrack: Luís Cília

Direction Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Cast José Saramago · Pilar del Río · Gabriel García Márquez · Gael García Bernal

Synopsis "José and Pilar," a documentary by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. It follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Rio. The film shows their...

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Maria do Céu Guerra · João Jesus · Fernanda Serrano · Ricardo Carriço

Synopsis An 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family's will, they...

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Soraia Chaves · Ivo Canelas · Nicolau Breyner · Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis Love, sex, politics and corruption meet head on in this drama from Portugal. A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations....

Direction Joaquim Leitão

Cast Gonçalo Waddington · Cândido Ferreira · Leonor Seixas · Paulo Pires

Synopsis The underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.

Direction Joaquim Leitão

Cast Marco D'Almeida · Dinarte de Freitas · Ana Marta Contente · Tomás Andrade

Synopsis Daniel had a plan, a sort of journal of the future, written in a notebook. Sometimes he went back to rectify small things, but still, life seemed pretty easy and happiness too. But, all of a sudden, everything changed for...

Direction Luís Filipe Rocha

Cast Leonor Seixas · João Ricardo · João Pedro Vaz · Maria João Falcão

Synopsis Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being raped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.

Direction Joaquim Leitão

Cast Carla Chambel · Sabri Lucas · Cristina Câmara · Paulo Pires

Synopsis The Police searches Martim a young boy who is missing, why did he left his home and where is he?

Direction Christian de Chalonge

Cast Marco Pico · Ludmila Mikael · Antonio Passalia · António Assunção

Synopsis "O salto" means the leap, more precisely the big leap Potuguese illegal emigrants have to make when they decide to leave their native land. They do it because they cannot put up with poverty any longer or because they want...

Direction Monique Rutler

Cast Amílcar Botica · Márcia Breia · João Calvário · Manuela Carona

Synopsis Four different stories are connected by a puppet show.

Direction Luís Filipe Rocha

Cast Maria João Luís · Virgílio Castelo · Filipe Ferrer · Cândido Ferreira

Synopsis Luisa, a Portuguese Supreme Court Judge, is given the Camarate File, the investigation of the accident that led to the death of Portuguese Prime-Minister and his accompanists on December the 4th, 1980. She must decide whether the case goes to...