Portugal Movies

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...

A documentary portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo Gomes.

Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São...

Tiago doesn't understand the internet. Rita doesn't understand people. Tiago is a 5th and 6th grade History teacher who, against the will of his...

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing...

It all started in Mafalala, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. A kid kicked into rag balls and did not care...

In Sarajevo, in a cinema’s projection booth, lives Sena; a woman who in daily solitude repeats the projection of the few Yugoslavian films of...

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to...

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

In 2008, a corpse identified by the police with the birth certificate of the writer João Paulo Cuenca was found in an occupied building in...

A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.

Bruno worked as a kitchen assistant in a Portuguese restaurant and, when he returned there, he recalled a shocking incident. He had Rick, a...

His school is closed. There are no other children on those mountains. To keep studying, this young kid must go to another place - unknown place. He...

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave...

A teenage girl's dream of becoming famous turns into a dangerous obsession.

In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings...

The portrait of a community as they face their country's economic recession.

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an...

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.