The Infernal Machine
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to…
Irregular
Sunburn
Vitalina Varela
Day Shift
A film about faces, gestures and procedures during a day shift at the 112 medical emergency centre hotline, at INEM’s headquarters in Lisbon.
Diamantino
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt imagine a famous football player absolutely everybody lusts after. An outlandish, ingenuous and funny comedy on the world of football and gigantic long-haired dogs that…
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic…
Damned Summer
At an Uncertain Time
Bunker
A Century of Energy
Manoel de Oliveira’s final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.
Blood Brothers
“Blood Brothers” follows one night in the life of the Forcados Amadores de Montemor, a bullfighting suicide squad in Portugal. Returning to the biggest arena for the first time without…
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring…
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring…
Blood of My Blood
Palaces of Pity
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past – one consumed by fear…
Under My Skin
On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to…
Fantasia Lusitana
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to…
Blind Runner – An Artist under Surveillance
In this film an artist is under 24-hour surveillance. Through a continuous circulation of images and sounds, the spectator becomes an accomplice and witness to all his movements. During this…
Skin
Rebels in the End of Times
A documentary about the everyday life and the expectations of three rebels, from Cape Verde, who are waiting for the end of the world. They believe salvation will come with…