João Bénard da Costa

To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought togethe...

Fragile as the World

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time...

Sodankylä Forever

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle...

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted s...

Doomed Love

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the...

Magic Mirror

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was...

Magic Mirror

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was...

City of Pirates

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a ti...

Francisca

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fata...

The Mountains of the Moon

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set i...

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...

Blind Man's Bluff

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he...

Oxalá

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented...

The Convent

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese conven...

História do Cinema Português

The Satin Slipper

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is for...

The Uncertainty Principle

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Word and Utopia

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better...

Cinemaamor

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic...

The Life of Mirrors

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A...

The 15th Stone

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean...

Tall Stories

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn fo...

Agustina Bessa-Luís: Nasci Adulta e Morrerei Criança

Doomed Love

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

The Territory

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously...

Porto of My Childhood

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Past and Present

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse...

The Invisible Collection

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the...

The Sound of the Shaking Earth

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote any...

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of th...

Aqui D'El Rei!

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, im...

Oliveira, l'architecte

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and whe...

Vasco Santana: O Bom Português

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

No Tempo do Cinema

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi

Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction betw...