Racismo: Uma Descolonização Em Curso
All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
A small group of people is in a music festival on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In "Fear and Loathing and Party in Las Ponta Delgada", we experience the happiness and insanity behind one of the most unique festivals in the world.
Picture a land of boulder-strewn shorelines, isolated mountaintops, and golden prairies. Here, packs of wolves stalk herds of ancient mustangs and tree-climbing carnivores keep entire forests on edge. Meanwhile, high above the crashing surf, a pair of storks attempts to raise a family on a narrow ledge atop a towering cliff. EUROPE'S WILD WEST is a place where survival is reserved for those with the keenest senses... and the quickest draw.
An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing through who made that place a more or less prolonged residence.
Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the privacy of her studio in London while she talks with humor and candor about her compulsion to produce works that, though accessible, deal with the most private themes.
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
"Thoughts on the moon, feet on the road, eyes on others": António Coimbra de Matos revolutionized psychoanalysis.
Equus Artifex
On a Summer afternoon, Pedro packs the last few boxes before having to leave his apartment in New York. 12 years ago, Pedro and Ana had arrived in America from Portugal, in search of a dream. Now, Ana's voice describes, from the other side of the ocean, that same country to which they are returning. As the rooms are emptied, Pedro bids farewell to one life, welcoming another. But the dream that brought him will remain forever in the city that never sleeps, awaiting his return.
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.
"The Lurking Fear" interviews Portuguese citizens whose lives where hit by the torture of its fascist political police.
Documentary about the photo session for the photobook "Castella", filmed in Portugal.
A box with a 1992 VHS and some film slides from a friends trip to Sri Lanka.
One year after our first journey to the Amazon, we return not only to a place, but to a way of living. Through physical challenges and unexpected discomfort, this film captures a quiet process of transformation. A story about moving through discomfort to uncover an inner strength. More than a journey, a confrontation. More than a retreat, a return.
After the Carnation Revolution, Portugal became a democracy and opened itself to the world. One of its consequences was the spread of erotic and pornographic films. This documentary tells the story of how these films arrived at Theatro Gil Vicente, an emblematic cultural venue of Barcelos.
River Lis runs polluted through Leiria. It's been 50 years since the first pig farm was installed in the region. Since then, people have lived with the consequences of countless crimes against the environment and a shocking lack of justice. The children that remember when the water was clean, now grandparents, share their story of resistance and fight against pollution.
A Aldeia mais Portuguesa de Portugal
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…