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- DirectorAndré GuiomarDocumentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?
- DirectorThomas HarlanJacques d'ArthuysAnna DevotoStarsThomas HarlanMaria VitóriaJosé Neves PaivaThe rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.
- DirectorDaniel EdingerMichel LequenneStarsJorge CostaIn October 1975, in Setúbal, Portugal, the residents, the workers in their factories, the soldiers in their barracks and the peasants organize themselves to elect a new leadership.
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsGuida MariaSinde FilipeSuzana BorgesEnd of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.
- DirectorCarlos VilardebóStarsAmália RodriguesPierre ClémentiPierre VaneckPierre, a French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
- DirectorGonçalo Galvão TelesStarsFilipe DuarteAna MoreiraRui MorissonAntonio leaves his farm for the city to be near his son Jorge, but finds Jorge's marriage failing and grandson Pedro rebelling, shattering his dreams.
- DirectorMarta Sousa RibeiroStarsSimon LangloisMariana AchegaRita MartinsInterspersed with North American images of homeless teens, the images shot between 2015 and 2019 show a child of separated parents grappling with a prickly sister and school exams he has not prepared for.
- DirectorJoão Cristóvão LeitãoImages from my family archive remind me of a text by Borges. Little by little, I transform Averroes into my grandfather, my grandfather into Borges and Borges into me. In this movement, it becomes increasingly difficult to look at any of them without, too, glimpsing all the others.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsTeresa MenezesDiogo DóriaMário BarrosoThe life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraCécile Sanz de AlbaLuís Miguel CintraEma is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria Amélia MattaJorge RollaVarela SilvaRaised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor BaldaqueLeonor SilveiraIsabel RuthHaving lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsAfonso BonitoCarmen SantosPaulo MatosA photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMichel PiccoliIrene PapasLeonor SilveiraThe battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are an older unmarried couple, the philosophical and observant Irene, and Michel, a roué. While Rogério and Irene talk, Michel and Leonor go down to the sea. The conversations upset Rogério and capture Leonor's imagination. Five years later, the four dine at the villa. Michel and Leonor again leave the other two. Intentions and undercurrents are subtle. One of the four proves strong, one weak, and two must choose. Wind and rain bring down the curtain on both acts.
- DirectorCláudia VarejãoStarsAna CabralRuben PimentaCristiana BranquinhoAna was born in São Miguel, an island ruled by religion and traditions. In between Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, and her friend Cloé from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey filled with new desires. Wolf and Dog is the enchanting ode to the island's queer community where the twilight glow crosses the immense Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorCláudia VarejãoStarsEunice FrancoTwo twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsAntonio VilarDanik PatissonAura AbranchesDuring the absence of Jorge, a mining engineer, Luísa, his wife, allowed himself to be seduced by Basílio, a relative whom he had broken years before, who had gone to Brazil.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRaul de CarvalhoTarquinio VieiraMaria Helena MatosBocage is a former navy officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in the second half of the 18th century, and he goes through a number of relationships, writing love poems to his Three Graces: his colleague Márcia - a wild girl - and her two sisters, Anália, who loves God more than men, and Canária, a sensual Brazilean 'canary' who lives to love...
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria de MedeirosMiguel GuilhermeLuís Miguel CintraPatients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsAssumpta SernaRaul SolnadoPatrick BauchauIn Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRogério SamoraTeresa MadrugaPedro EfeA 47 year old man who immigrated illegally to France, returns to his village and faces the changes that took place there, even the bride he had left is involved with another man. At that moment, and while the village prepares for a religious ceremony, he plans his revenge.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsMário ViegasLia GamaLuís LelloKilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the police is too busy to care. A mysterious Major - eventually from the secret police - approaches Kilas in order that his gang will set up a discreet vigilance on the house of a notorious anti-fascist person. Kilas is only happy to oblige, as he is being paid for the guys' work - until the contract is upped to place a bomb in the house. Now, that's too much even for a low pimp like Kilas! But - meanwhile he has a love dispute to settle with that house's owner; and that is a real psychological conflict that Kilas would wish not to have...
- DirectorRita Al CunhaStarsVirgínia EstevesErmerinda RodriguesMaria FragaThe discovery of a village on the northern border of Portugal, where melancholy dictates the fate of the People. A story about the bravery of leaving and the resilience of staying in a land indifferent to sorrow.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsBeatriz CostaManuel Santos CarvalhoJosé AmaroThe story of how Gracinda, a young washerwoman, tries to revitalize her decadent business with the help of Chico, for whom she's in love, and her uncle, who has a fiery rivalry with Quitéria, owner of another laundry business.
- DirectorCatarina VasconcelosStarsManuel RosaJoão MóraAna VasconcelosThe passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.
- DirectorManuela Serra"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."
- StarsRita LoureiroDinarte BrancoMadalena AlmeidaThe family Paixão runs a farm for wedding parties, but the business is not going well. While the love between the parents, Vanessa and Daniel appears to have ended, the grandparents, Luisa and Joaquim, seem inseparable; and the children, Rita and Marco, have completely distinct opinions about love.