July 10

Graça Morais – As Escolhidas

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

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

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

Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he emerged as the charismatic leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portuguese rule. With his utopian ideas, he sparked a cultural and an armed uprising that went on to inspire other African liberation movements.

A REVOLUCIÓN (É) PROBABLE

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.

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.

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

A day in the life of Marta, a raspberry grower who doesn't give up on her dreams.

The film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interweaving thoughts on the past and the present, and looking at the decline of rural life in the deserted Portuguese hinterland.

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.

Baptismo de Terra

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

RefleXions

Escalada à Torre dos Clérigos

A behind-the-scenes look at "Viagens", one of the greatest portuguese records of the 1990s, in the year of its 20th anniversary.

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