João Guedes

Paths

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across differe...

Francisca

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

Silvestre

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who d...

Change of Life

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese f...

Enchanted Isles

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for...

Circle of Passions

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac...

Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first t...

A Bee in the Rain

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural vill...

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The act...

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!

The village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba's former farmhand Georg, w...

Contos Fantásticos

Fado Corrido

A Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting...

O Defunto

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico

João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the communi...

Velhos são os Trapos

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies o...

A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's...

The Siren's Song

Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythol...