João Pedro Bénard

Tales from the Mountain

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each cha...

Grand Tour

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes...

Recollections of the Yellow House

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house...

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordea...

River of Gold

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-i...

Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Ban...

Sombras Brancas

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and...

Mariphasa

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstanc...

Rage

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign ov...

Patrick

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which re...

Vanity

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães,...

Journey to Portugal

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon...

Portuguese Joe

An old gunman travels the Alentejo in search of revenge, accompanied by the mute daughter of one of his targets.

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the countr...

The Conquest of Faro

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another coupl...

Querença

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the me...

4 Hearts

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and...

Ramiro

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, so...

A Woman's Revenge

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, myst...

Worth Your Weight in Gold

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mer...

From Now On

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in l...

Alfama

A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leave...

Hotel Royal

'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through...

A True and Faithful Account

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses becaus...

Beyond the Mountains

In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories...

The Face You Deserve

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for...

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...

Coup de Grâce

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At fir...

Dead Man's Memories

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading...

João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18...

Imitação de Vida

I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. Howeve...

Os Terríveis

Far From Amazónia

In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from...