
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »
Tag Archives: Portugal
And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) Billy Woodberry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Susanne Cockrell, Ossie Davis

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck

A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
Down to Earth AKA Casa de Lava (1994) Pedro Costa, Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker Read More »
(Be)longing AKA Volta à Terra (2014) Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, João Pedro Plácido

Volta à Terra tells the story of an endangered community: farmers who practice subsistence farming in a mountainous Read More »
Coming and Going AKA Vai E Vem (2003) João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau

Driven by his struggle against the illness that would ultimately prove fatal, Monteiro fervently devoted himself to his deeply personal last work Read More »
The Other One (1981) Conversa Acabada

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. Read More »
Lent AKA Quaresma (2003) José Álvaro Morais, Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Cary, Rita Durão, Ricardo Aibéo

David is married, has a daughter, and is about to leave Portugal with his family. Read More »
O Crime da Aldeia Velha (1964) Manuel Guimarães, Clara D’Ovar, Alma Flora, Lídia Franco

Set in a little remote village, where everyone is very religious and primitive Read More »
Magic Mirror AKA Espelho Mágico (2005) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Luís Miguel Cintra

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. Read More »
Alice (2005) Marco Martins, Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda, Miguel Guilherme, Drama

193 days have passed since Alice was seen for the last time. Every day Mário, her father, leaves home to repeat exactly Read More »
Manô (2005) George Felner, Diogo Infante, Adelaide de Sousa

A crew of construction workers starts destroying a distant ancient film production factory, regarded as an eye sore. Read More »
The Circle AKA O Cerco (1970) António da Cunha Telles, Maria Cabral, Miguel Franco, Ruy de Carvalho, Mário Jacques

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers AKA Os Faroleiros (1922) Maurice Mariaud, A. Castro Neves, Castro Neves

In a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast. Read More »
Trails AKA Veredas (1978) João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Luís de Sousa Costa, Francisco Domingues, Carmen Duarte

A poetic journey in the heart of Portugal. They were two. A man and a woman that met and traveled down from the Tras-os-Montes to the sea. Read More »