David Almeida

Father by Chance

An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, hav...

Sara

Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her...

Odisseia

A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno No...

The Easy Way

Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South...

Con(s)certos na Cave

The Art of Stealing

Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Ar...

A Mãe do Senhor Ministro

The Beauty and the Paparazzo

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity...

Ruy Blas

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to se...

Love Torn in a Dream

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind...

The Great Mystical Circus

The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-ow...

Facas e Anjos

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had be...

Magnetick Pathways

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is a...

The Fifth Empire

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebast...

Lent

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his g...

Eclipse

The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar e...

8 8

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to...

The Nothingness Club

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgro...

Tebas

Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”....

I'll See You in My Dreams

The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them...

Jonathas' Forest

Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The famil...

The Spousals of God

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the...

Lavado em Lágrimas

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor nei...

Low-Flying Aircraft

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dyin...

The Botanist

Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush...

O Último Condenado à Morte

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

Cinerama

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take re...

Rio Turvo

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to...

The Art of Dying Far Away

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever c...

The Gravedigger

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A chil...

The Damned Yard

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to...

Golias

A jester must entertain. But he doesn't always want to.

Labirinto

Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival...

Down by Life

A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.