Edmundo Díaz Sotelo
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Known For

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
Fragile as the World

A widowed theater actor relives his memory of a young love.
Altar

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous
The Lovebirds

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Operation Autumn

Set in 2025, five centuries after the sentencing of death of Gilles de Rais. A young couple discovers the case while isolated from the world. Like their contemporaries, they wonder about the guilt or innocence of this monster who inspired the Bluebeard tale. And so the idea arises to recreate the trial.
The Massacre of Gilles de Rais

“A Cidade de Portas” is a documentary about the city as the frontier of the thought of Nuno Portas, visionary architect, urban planner and professor emeritus at the University of Porto - Portugal. His reflections, his architectural and urban projects, as well as the urban plans he coordinated and the books he wrote, raise a deep debate about the city as a cultural object, full of multiple ambiences and spatial contradictions, which reflect and define everyday experience make “being urban”.
A Cidade de Portas

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.
Twist of Fate

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
The Fatalist

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
The Miracle According to Salomé

Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.
Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.
Outside

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."
98 Octanas
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Amor Cego

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador.
Em Câmara Lenta
Various obstacles prevent young Alejandro Rivera from giving notice of his delay for an important job interview. Without measuring the consequences, he gives in to a fit of rage.
Un momento de ira

The unbearable heat on the factory places us on the hottest summer days. A man who has been forced to leave everything behind tries to go to his daughter's birthday but receives threats from the court. In itself grows a wave of impatience, despair, violence. The violence not only of feelings but of things, materials, iron and metal, which deteriorate with time and the suffocating heat. In this industrial hell men merges with machines, they are near collapse.
Ferro Sangue
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Curso de Silêncio

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