A Aldeia mais Portuguesa de Portugal

Synthesis of the first 110 years of the history of Portuguese cinema, made almost exclusively with archive material from the series of eight episodes History of Portuguese Cinema, produced by Pedro Efe in 1998, and combining excerpts from films with testimonies from some of the most prominent actors of the same story. It is attempted to relate it chronologically, and in spite of certain gaps, in an accessible, concise and didactic way.

Dentro, fora do Brasil

In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

Escalada à Torre dos Clérigos

Launch of a competition, organized by the newspaper O Século, entitled Statues of Portugal.

This Screenliner short looks at the dress and customs of Nazaré, a fishing village on Portugal's Atlantic coast.

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.

"The Lurking Fear" interviews Portuguese citizens whose lives where hit by the torture of its fascist political police.

RefleXions

Graça Morais – As Escolhidas

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

A love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.

Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies, Antonio Salazar, the country’s strongman, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed. In this war of nerves in which anything went, the Portuguese dictator took brilliant advantage of the only weapon available to maintain his country’s independence: neutrality.

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.

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last great desire: to be a good dead man.

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.

A look at the LGBTQIA+ community in the coastal region of the Algarve, where—far from the metropolises and sheltered from progress—the community comes together to face the challenges that affect it.