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- The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
- Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.
- Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
- In a cabin in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a botany professor observes two newlyweds while spending time with his lover. At night, his wife confronts him about the extramarital relationship and she leaves the teacher the next morning.
- A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.
- Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
- A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
- A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo.
- "Its uniqueness defines also a model - of cinema, of auteur, of a country, of a time - if that model could be established under the form of vagueness and of incompleteness."
- In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
- The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - from training barracks to the lakes and gardens of his youth and infatuation - and also to his memory's gulf - war and passion combined, entangled, in a battle that questions or howls immemorial existential doubts.
- Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
- One summer day, the priest of the Hojuuin Temple dies. As soon as he hears the news, Harumichi returns to town and organizes a grand funeral. He was never willing to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a high school teacher, far from home, but given the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new head of the Hojuuin Temple, Harumichi struggles, day after day, for donations as a means of subsistence. He tries to lead a regulated existence, without excesses, until the day he passes by a bicycle racing track. The vibrant sound of the audience takes you to a new way of life.
- Ikuyo is the boss of Shizumoto, a geisha residence that employs four other women. All of them, simultaneously, reveal the extreme hardships of the profession. From the frustrated search for popularity in the newspapers, through the diffuse desires for motherhood and ending in disappointment in love, the five women survive under the incandescent sky of Ginza, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Tokyo. Told from the perspective of a recently hired young geisha apprentice, Women of Ginza is an acidic and lucid portrait of these women who, even in defeat, emerge enlightened.
- Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died slowly disintegrates. While daughter Tamiko struggles with her stepmother Nobuko's attempts to marry her off to careless physician Ihura, her bed-ridden brother Junjiro grieves for his ex-wife Keiko who left him for another man. Although Ihura is more interested in Nobuko, he has a short-lived affair with Tamiko, who herself cares only for Ihura's future social and financial status. After selling the family's last remaining properties, Tamiko and Junjiro refuse to give Nobuko her share. Nobuko moves out of the house, announcing that she will take legal steps against her stepchildren's decision. Shortly before his death, Junjiro confesses to Tamiko that he lost the family's money and the mortgaged house in ill-fated stock market investments.
- "Sacavém" is a journey through Pedro Costa's films and focuses on his work on "Casa De Lava", "Ossos", "In Vanda's Room", "Colossal Youth" and "Horse Money". Built on the visual and sound landscape of Pedro Costa's films and accompanied by his owns reflections on the matter, "Sa-cavém" serves the audience as a window on how Costa's cinema is sensed and conceived.
- Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit "seppuku" (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign in death and thus preserve the honor of his samurai clan. His older brother's wife, Oko, who raised Iori as if he were her own son, asks her husband's permission to spend a night with the young man and teach him, out of maternal mercy, the art of pleasures of the flesh. However, the next day, an official decree is issued, surprising everyone involved.
- Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family.
- Dialogue of Shadows uses the exhibition "Pedro Costa: Company" as its raw material, and as a starting point to build a mosaic, sparking a dialogue between several figures from filmmaker Pedro Costa's creative imagination.
- Faced with an uncommon situation, an empowered woman performs a series of actions in order to re-establish domestic normality.
- Roberto, a retired and disappointed journalist, leaves his work in a farm and goes back to his hometown, Braga, which he thinks will be his last hiding place. However, in returning, he feels a strong energy in the city.
- A group of veterans of the Portuguese colonial war gets together during present times. Between songs and remembrances, the past starts taking over.
- "Us" is an animated short film that proposes a journey through the human condition in conflict. War, solitude, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.