António Campos

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.

Situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain, which protected it from the cold offshore winds of winter, and between the rivers Man and Eido, which irrigated the fields around it, the village of Vilarinho das Furnas was destroyed in 1969. This documentary provides a tribute to the people of the town during the last 12 months of its existence, before being erased by the cold and clear waters that gave it life for so long.

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.

José and Maria, a young, devout couple in a remote Portuguese fishing village, take a vow of chastity on their wedding night to honor a religious pact. Their commitment is pushed to the breaking point when they rescue a mysterious, wounded stranger and bring him into their home. As the outsider’s presence ignites repressed desires and jealousy, the couple's sacred promise leads to a violent confrontation with the local community's superstitions.

Following the Revolution of April 25, 1974, the walls of the city of Lisbon became a means of celebrating and transmitting revolutionary ideals and slogans. The text by painter António Domingues praises this plastic work initiated by the Plastic Artists Cell of the Portuguese Communist Party.

A borderland village of Trás-os-Montes, 27 km away from Bragança, Rio de Onor preserved - due to its isolated location - the old communitarian practices, of farmers and shepherds, that define it as an important and unmistakable center of this region.

A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the 1960 and 1970’s. Considered as a director out of the mainstream, a loner, instinctive, Campos stands for the passion of filming.

An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho.

Commissioned by the Leiria Tourism Municipal Commission, this documentary shows the streets of the city, the people at the fair, the Lis River, the field workers, the Industrial and Commercial School, the Social Assistance Centre, the Afonso Lopes Vieira Nursery...

Armando, the only grandson of an old worker of Salinas de Aveiro, studies music in France and any news from him is scarce. The grandfather Abilio then decides to send him a letter announcing his death and Armando rushes to return.

The migration that saw the fishermen from the Vieira coast move inland, where they settled and formed the Avieiros communities. - Cinéma du réel

The life of tuna fishermen and their families during the fishing season on Pumpkin Island in Tavira (Algarve). The documentary depicts their fishing methods and their return home after fishing. This was the last activity of "frame" or "almadraba" tuna fishery, before the camp was destroyed by the sea in the winter of the following year, in 1962.

A couple is pursued by the police and citizens of a city for the crime of having invented love. In every corner of the city, on the walls of the bars, on the doors of public buildings, in the windows of the bus, even that wall ruined through radio ads and detergents in the small shop window, where no one enters the lobby of the railway station which was the home of our hope of escape, a poster denounces our love.

This is a film supported by an association between the flow of the waters of the river and the flow of the lives of the men and women who work day to day, fighting for their survival. The title of the film states that the focus will be on the people who live on the banks of the River Lis, that is, the film offers us portraits of those who are from the banks of the River Lis. The work and poverty of the people living on the banks of the river run side by side, but also hope, as children have a special place in this film...

Adaptation of the eponymous tale by Loureiro Botas.

The miller’s wife is about to give birth. Lying in her bed, she writhes in pain. The midwife cannot help her and the doctor is not here. It is then that the priest is called.

Short documentary on Marc Chagall.

"The festivities in honour of Sao Pedro,August 8th and 9th 1975. A complement to Gente da Praia da Vieira, isolated from the whole film material, because of its specificities and thematic unity." (José de Matos-Cruz)

Ti Miséria has a supernatural power. When Death comes to take her, she traps her in a pear tree. But without death the world doesn't work. Those whose work depend on Death, want it to be freed from the tree. It is then that Death makes a deal with Ti Miséria.