Portugal Movies

A thinking about light and how it surrounds our lives.

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

Angela and Jay survive by fishing for food on the wave-beaten volcanic coast. Their life as a couple is under stress and their existence is...

Set up a market in a 50x50-meter square. A square module measuring 1x1 meters commands the composition and introduces its geometry. Various...

In a tradition dating back to the dawn of humanity, Costa da Caparica was born through the Arte-Xávega. Today, a community of fishermen adapts...

Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s...

An insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, the film maker Nick Willing. Notoriously private and guarded,...

Orphaned by father and mother, Clara has always dreamed of building a singing career. At the age of 16, she moved to Belo Horizonte, where she won...

After his parents’ difficult divorce, Frederico decides to move to São Paulo to live with his mother and study engineering, a childhood...

Gabriel and Rita, a trans girl, have been friends since childhood. But a weekend trip to Chapada dos Guimarães could reveal the romance they...

Marta, feeling estranged from Isa, her older sister, tries to get closer, but is devalued. To retaliate and get the attention she needs, she plays...

We are all pretenders. We pretend for others, sometimes pretending for ourselves first. And we are all readers, who read without empathy, without...

A retrospective that begins in 1942, when Adolf Hitler was still at the height of his power and the Allies began envisioning a cross-channel invasion...

During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is...

From fragments and dreams reconstruction of a misplaced childhood, black transvestite life technologies articulate through the hair.

Madrid, Spain, 1936. The young Miguel Gila lives happily with his grandparents in a humble attic; but the outbreak of the Civil War forces him to go...