
For every one of the last 20 years, The Dead Girl’s Feast has been celebrated in a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River. Read More »
Tag Archives: Portugal
Portugal S.A. (2004) Ruy Guerra, Diogo Infante, Cristina Câmara, Henrique Viana

Jacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Read More »
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello

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 »
The Estrela’s Lion (1947) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Maria Eugénia

Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »
Colossal Youth (2006) Pedro Costa, Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »
The Fatalist (2005) João Botelho, Rogério Samora, André Gomes, Rita Blanco, Suzana Borges

Everything good or bad that happens to us “down here” is written “up there”. Read More »
Rosa de Alfama (1953) Henrique Campos, Alberto Ribeiro, Mariana Villar, Alves da Cunha

Alberto Ribeiro and Mariana Villar star in a popular melodrama set in Alfama (neighborhood of Lisbon) Read More »
East Timor – Dream of the Crocodile (2002) Diana Andringa, Xanana Gusmão

Leader of the world’s newest country, Xanana Gusmao, really knows about fighting for freedom and democracy. Read More »
A Vizinha do Lado (1945) António Lopes Ribeiro, Silvestre Alegrim, Carlos Alves, Emilia D’Oliveira

The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »
Nightfall (1999) Fred Kelemen, Adolfo Assor, Thomas Baumann, Isa Hochgerner

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