Portuguese

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple.Read More »

In the ruins of the village of Marialva, an old lady guards the entrance of what is now a cemetery, telling and retelling the history of the curse of Marialva that started a thousand years ago, when the place was a crowded village. The story starts in the day three men were sentenced to death and their wife and daughter, sentenced to be marked by fire.Read More »

When there’s a crisis in power, the man who holds this power is also personally disturbed. His defeat is thorough and complete. A dictator, in a moment of serious national crisis, confronted in the streets and countryside by revolt and guerilla, makes a long speech on TV, looking for an illusionary peace. But reality is stronger than his fiction, and control gets out of hand. For him, there’s only one way out: a pathetic confession and going off the air.Read More »

Plot: 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.Read More »

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling “king of the deck”, and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. “The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage” – Julio BressaneRead More »

The vine bore fruit and it’s harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves is burning.Read More »

Lisbon, 2027. Marta and Miguel are both researchers that are part of a scientific group and a couple in their private lives. Their relationship will be put to the test on one decisive night when the parameters that Marta is analyzing point to the very high probability of a major earthquake hitting Lisbon. The group splits, debating whether or not to warn the population of the possible impending tragedy.Read More »

A Portugese soldier gets lost in the African jungle, in 1917.Read More »

Zeca’s routine is about to be disrupted-not just because he is about to be fired, but also because of an unforeseen bond with Luisa, the coworker who breaks the news and who, somewhat kindly, offers to drive him home.Read More »