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- 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."
- DirectorLauro AntónioStarsEunice MuñozVergílio FerreiraCanto e CastroEstefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
- CreatorRui Cardoso MartinsEdgar MedinaStarsMargarida Vila-NovaNuno LopesIvo CanelasAfter the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsAlbano JerónimoNuno LopesIsabel AbreuA pagan tradition from the interior of Portugal leaves painful marks on a group of teenagers. Twenty-five years later, when they reunite, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsJoão Pedro MamedeMaria do Céu RibeiroIsabel AbreuDialogues with Leuco are short dialogues between divine or heroic figures from Greek-Roman mythology. Each dialogue deals with destiny, life and death, sacrifice, suffering, memory and desire, time and place.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsCatherine DeneuveJohn MalkovichLuís Miguel CintraThe journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
- StarsMariana Rey MonteiroManuela SantosMarques D'AredeThe story starts with the trial and conviction of doctor Francisco António Barbosa Botelho, who is sentenced to 8 years in prison for a drunk-driving homicide. His daughter, Marta Botelho, swears never to see him again. Eight years later, as António is finishing his sentence, he aims to reconnect with his daughter and meet the widow of the patient he killed, all while navigating complex family and business dynamics.
- StarsGonçalo WaddingtonCândido FerreiraLeonor SeixasThe underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsTony de MatosIsabel de CastroAnabelaA famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSaúl FonsecaFernanda SerranoJoaquim LeitãoA woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.