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In the 15th century, in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented the entry of women. But the hands of the living cannot control everything: in the invisible world, where night reigns and only souls light up the forest, women have built their kingdom of invisibility, without walls.Read More »
Rosa is a successful designer living in a generic big city. After the unexpected death of her grandfather, she realizes she’s not been in a place where she felt connected or loved since she left her homeland.Read More »
Synopsis
Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.Read More »
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a ’60s radical turned doctor in exile.
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease’s real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.Read More »
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A correspondence between a brother and sister in the midst of the anniversary of their mother’s death, causes them to go in a journey to the past to understand the time where their mother lived and how their country, Portugal, was in the 70’s when a revolution took place. It was called the carnation revolution and it was in 1974 when their mother was still young and the “people united will never be defeated” echoed in the streets and the land reform was on fire.
In a blend of a family story with the Portuguese History, this film is an adventure to remember something that can’t be lost.Read More »
The film sought to portray a relatively unknown and isolated rural world and, through a highly politicized discourse, affirmed the genuineness of “folk culture.” Representative of the new documentary film movement that developed in Portugal after the revolution, the movie encouraged the local retrieval of the Caretos tradition. A ritual that seemed to be doomed by the conjoined impact of emigration, the colonial war and the crisis of agriculture was thus brought back to life. – Paulo RaposoRead More »
Movie director visits a set on a studio about to be closed. For his next film, he wants his faithful favorite actress, but she is now tempted by a profitable TV deal.Read More »
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Ignoring the alarmed advice of his noblemen and counselors, young King Sebastian fuels his religious obsession to go to war with the Muslims. They warn that Portugal can’t afford it, but he brushes them off. Even his mother, Queen Catarina, cannot sway his fervor to fight the infidels, expand his kingdom and achieve glory. A mysterious figure called the Holy Cobbler challenges his fanatical ideas, calling down ghostly voices to talk to him. But he is no wiser the next morning.Read More »
Two points of view. One extreme event. Two voices. There’s no more air, not any more, nothing. So much time wasted on little things.Read More »