Portugal

The town of Oporto, each scene followed by a glimpse of the work of the water colourist Antonio Cruz.Read More »

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Following Marta’s wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. That long night becomes a maze-like journey through their interconnecting friendships, where each reveals herself as it was the last day. On the eve of the burial, the talk is about life and a friendship that survived it all. But will this friendship be able to survive death?Read More »

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A young Portuguese man, exiled in Paris, often visits the country, between April 25th 1974 and October 1978, without choosing to settle on ether, due to the social-political situation – a behavior developed by his experiences in foreign countries, the transformations made in his original family environment and, in particular, in the relationships he keeps.

The story of his experience is reveled through several female portraits, and successive temporal-geographic landscapes.Read More »

Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.Read More »

Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?Read More »

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Mariana, seventeen, is a high school student living on the outskirts of Lisbon. One day, she is caught in a desperate situation: having been raped by a drug addict, she later finds that she is pregnant.

Out of fear, shame or anger she decides to conceal it from everybody else – her parents, boyfriend, friends, the police and the court – and cope with it on her own.Read More »

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?Read More »

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May 2016. A group of 11 women set off from a village in the extreme north of Portugal on pilgrimage to Fátima. They walk 400km on foot over 10 days, crossing half of Portugal in a great effort to fulfill their promises.

The extreme fatigue, suffering and physical limitations of each one of them lead to moments of rupture. Then they reveal their deeper identities and motivations.

When arriving in Fatima, in the midst of enormous exhaustion, each one will have to find her own way to redemption.Read More »

A series of brief, evocative scenes capturing the life of a painter—his moments of inspiration, frustration, solitude, and fleeting triumphs. From the quiet ritual of preparing his brushes at dawn to the feverish strokes of creation at midnight.Read More »