Portuguese

Documentary about Indigenous peoples’ profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.Read More »

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancée 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 »

Made in the famous “Água de Meninos” market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets.Read More »

Synopsis
It’s a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it’s an “etnofiction”: it portrays the typical characters of Terra Fria, the Northeast of Portugal, showing secular habits in a majestic rural ambience. It’s one of the works that representes the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) Portuguese movement, and one of the first Portuguese docudramas.Read More »

This is a film adaptation of a chamber drama of the same title by Plínio Marcos which is something of a classic repertory piece in Brazilian theater.

Synopsis:
A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello’s gay cleaner fight over the gigolo’s missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.Read More »

When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they vis…Read More »

Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.Read More »

Synopsis:
An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.Read More »

The second short film directed by António Reis in partnership with producer César Guerra Leal premiered at the Ódeon cinema in Lisbon on January 29, 1964. It is presumed to have been commissioned by the Cávado Hydroelectric Plant, as it reveals various aspects of the construction of the dam network in that river basin.Read More »