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- The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remembering Expo 98. In a kaleidoscopic invitation to submersion, we returned to the World Exhibition that marked the 500th anniversary of the Maritime Expansion.
- 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.
- Original music "Histórias", by Rodrigo Leão, with interpretation by Camané, as part of the concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 25th of April, at the Assembly of the Republic.
- A wedding is a contract between two people who wish to constitute a family in full communion of life, based in equality of rights and duties between spouses. The family's running lays on both and on their agreement about the steering of their mutual life and interests. This documentary attempts to show the plurality of weddings in portuguese society.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fernando Lemo's world is fiercely stripped of any external logics, as Jorge de Sena once said. His artistic gesture blends with his own existence, where the poetic principle comes first. And with the light that insists to come through the half-closed door, the fear of life is vanquished in the battle fought with death. Thus, each word is born within another word and each image within another image. Of how many knives is love made of? the poet wonders.
- Special Envoy is a quest to bring to light the inspiring yet unknown mission of an Indian, Aquino de Bragança, whose life was cut short in the Mozambican presidential plane crash in 1986.
- 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.
- In this journey, an intergenerational sharing begins with Portugal as the backdrop. The director and his young daughter saunter trying to understand the country they are part of.
- Recording and editing of the homonym ballet, choreographed by Olga Roriz, for the Companhia Olga Roriz.
- A Caixa de Pandora is the title of a song by Zeca Medeiros recorded in Expo 98 and it is used as musical support for memories of trips that Rui Simões made to Azores. It is a postal-video for friends.
- Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.
- Situations Goldberg is a borderline situation. Transported by Bach's music, the ballerina rebels against everything and everyone, including herself, even if it is her body that she wants to glorify.
- This work deals with seduction, struggle, power games, surrender and rejection, fear, loneliness and eternal love.
- 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.
- Live concert of the Irmãos Catita and friends at the Ritz Club, in 1996, Very Sentimental Show
- Where does a combat leader go after his objective of radical change is conquered? Which role do former revolutionaries reserve for themselves and their family and friends after a revolution.
- This documentary has the curiosity of a young fine arts student has its starting point, who at the same time both interviews and makes the portrait of inhabitants of a periferic Lisbon neighbourhood with an African background.
- Every day, thousands of pilgrims bathe in the waters of the Ganges river, in Benares, the sacred city chosen by those who are dying, because for them, dying in Benares assures eternity.
- Always go, go against everything that wants to make us go back, go against obligation, go against memory, go against longing, go against recognition.
- 40 years later, Rui Simões returns to São Pedro da Cova to exhibit the photographs he took during the directing of São Pedro da Cova's films. From this reencounter a new message to the central power: now it's toxic waste that is threatening people's health. 40 years later. From coal to waste, the fight goes on.
- The story of a homeless man and his journey.
- 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.
- What would you take with you if you had to leave home without knowing if you would come back?
- Videoclip about the women in India, region of Banares, for EXPO'98, integrating the project "IMAGENS"(Images).
- Congratulations video to the director Manoel de Oliveira for his 100th birthday.
- It's a show about seductions, fights, power games, words of access, delivery, rejection, fear, solitude, strife and the permanent conflicts of the body in a continuing closer more primary motion. Survival and confrontation.
- This documentary proposes a look into those who, during the Portuguese Colonial War, had the simultaneous responsibility of fighting with their battalion and permanently register that mission, through photography and film.
- Documentary about the creative laboratory Action for Age 2, organized by Experimenta Design, whose goal is to promote inter-generational relations, through design, as a way of fighting solitude and social isolation of the elder population.
- Video installation by Rui Simões for the LUX bar. Traveling between West and East, INDIA AND FLANDERS. Splash of atmospheres in pure silk with dancers and words of encounters and disagreements over landscapes.
- "Stop Don't Stop" is a documentary about the survival of a space and the people who inhabit it.
- 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.
- Video about the Waves Garden (Nations' Park ), part of João Gomes da Silva and Fernanda Fragateiro's installation, within the "CO-LABORAÇÕES Arquitectos / Artistas" Exhibition, Sala Jorge Vieira, Nations' Park (Lisbon).
- Videoclip about trading in India, region of Benares, for EXPO'98, a part of the project "IMAGENS" (Images).
- A gigolo is summoned to have sex with a widow who has just lost her husband. This is the extreme of the forced Mozambican tradition, Kutchinga.
- Uíge, Angola. Inside a Portuguese catholic seminar, different shapes of silence are experimented. A place inhabited by multiple sounds and images that scope from nature and meditation to colonial impressions.
- "Os Olhos de Gulay Cabbar" is the recording of the homonymous show and is part of a series of video programs recorded over ten years accompanying the choreographers of Olga Roriz.
- 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.
- We trace the memory of a lost people, galloping in empty villages, in unopened books, in stone cathedrals, untapped lands, boxes of knowledge, boys who are lost, wolves, pigs, roosters and turkeys for killing.