Tag Archives: Portugal

Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »

Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »

Everything good or bad that happens to us “down here” is written “up there”. Read More »

Alberto Ribeiro and Mariana Villar star in a popular melodrama set in Alfama (neighborhood of Lisbon) Read More »

Leader of the world’s newest country, Xanana Gusmao, really knows about fighting for freedom and democracy. Read More »

The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »

Not everyone might know the directorial work of Fred Kelemen, though his name may be recognizable Read More »

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money Read More »

Spino, a 50-year-old pathologist, works at the city morgue. Read More »

Cipriano Lopes & D.Rosa Gonçalves are shopkeepers and hate each other. Read More »

Roberto is a dandy! An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. Read More »

A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman’s journey in Siberia. Read More »

It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »

This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Read More »