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- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.
- Born in Lisbon during the Fascist Regime in order to control students coming from the portuguese overseas colonies, the Casa Estudantes do Império, was fundamental to the independence movements in the colonies.
- A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- From 1961 to 1974, 100.000 young Portuguese men went to war in the ex-colonies. At the same time, another 100.000 left Portugal to avoid that same war. About the ones who made the war a lot has been said, written and filmed. About the others nothing has been said, it is a sort of taboo of our society. What role did the men who "escaped the war" in the creation of the country we live in now? In what way did they resist? If there is an image of the unknown soldier, this film tries to show that other unknown man who refused to be a soldier.
- The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
- Letters from Angola is a voyage into a forgotten past where several stories intersect - that of Angolan-born filmmaker Dulce Fernandes and those of the Cubans who fought in the Angolan war. A journey through today's Cuba, the film uncovers the lost connection to a land left behind and it's a poetic reflection on the fragile place of the individual in the midst of the tectonic movements of history.
- This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of "ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA" (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
- Cova da Moura Island follows this neighbourhood's daily life, finding the cape verdean reflections in it and searching for the ways in which social exclusion is fought or perpetuated in the lives of it's residents.
- IZIDINE, a recently promoted Police Detective, is called to an elderdy home set in a former colonial fortress to investigate a crime: VASTO EXCELÊNCIO, the home's director has been murdered. MARTA, the home's nurse tries to steer the investigation to the real crime, the home's very own existence. IZIDINE is confronted with a surprise: all the residents confess that they are the murderer. Their motives going from the way the director treated the elderly, beating them, the domestic violence perpetrated by the director on his own wife's, or the nurse confessing a love affair with the deceased who forced her to have an abortion. The detective will slowly discover that the real crime was a revenge. The director used the Home to smuggle weapons, which the elderly made disappear, sentencing him to be killed by his buddy criminals.
- Tango Privado results from the complicity between the performers and the camera. The initially choreographed movements adapt and reinvent themselves in an improvised way where the camera also becomes an interpreter.
- What would you take with you if you had to leave home without knowing if you would come back?
- In Bafatá, Guiné-Bissau, Canjajá Mané, an old cinema operator and guard of the city club, repeats the same routine for 50 years. But nowadays the cinema is closed and there are no viewers.
- How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
- Abandoning a life of petty crime, David strives to fulfill his life-long ambition to become a professional singer of Fado, Portugal's popular folk-song. Together with his best friend Adriano, he starts performing on Lisbon's Fado Vadio circuit to perfect his craft, but whilst Adriano's strong voice swiftly brings him paid gigs, David struggles. Vadio is a human portrait of redemption, perhaps unattainable through music but possible with poetry. Unfortunately, David doesn't want to be a poet. It is a love story for a bygone Lisbon and Fado, where people still find catharsis singing songs about their sorrows.
- The paths of pain are populated by men and women of all ages, suffering from lack of affection, lack of money, mental problems, alcoholism and drug addiction, or they are simply people who have come to Portugal in search of a life that is a little better. On the other side of this path there is a veritable anthill of volunteers, social welfare workers and different technical assistants who construct and maintain support structures, some of them thinking of better days, and others institutionalising this help without believing that the phenomenon can be cured.
- 1950, 'Bairro Alto': João is 13 years old and decides to make his first incursion to the "prostitutes' district" in Lisbon. It was the beginning of a new stage in his life, set in a neighborhood also made of many distinct levels. What does remain today from the famous 'Bairro Alto'? The prostitutes and journalists, the artists and artisans... What has been changing, and how does it affect the future of the city? We follow the faces and the voices that fill up the empty streets with excitement, both day and night, in an attempt to inscribe the memories and expectations, dreams and desires that make up the whole of 'Bairro Alto', in the year of its 500th anniversary.
- The documentary is about the work of plastic artist Carlos Nogueira. Multidisciplinary artist, one of the most important contemporary Portuguese authors.
- António Escudeiro was born, grew up and worked in Angola until the day when he was forced to leave. He swore he would return. But his return home only took place thirty-two years later. "Goodbye, See You Tomorrow" is the documentary of that return, in which there is a crossing and confronting of two visual universes: the director's memories and today's Angola.
- Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
- Fifty years past the beginning of Portugal's African war to preserve the nationalist ideal of a country dispersed through three continents, a number of women speak up for the first time about the effects of that war on their lives, on the lives of their families or boyfriends, and some even on their participation on the war itself, as the first women nurses from the ace parachutist team the Army created then.
- This project aims shed light on the Goa and Tanzania links through the stories, memories, objects and places that testify the deep connection between the two shores of the Indian Ocean.