João Pedro Vaz

Winter Sun

Turn of the Tide

When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to mak...

Vanda

In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to ra...

Lusitânia

A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian myt...

Matilha

Odisseia

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

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. Th...

Justa

In 2017, in Portugal, devastating wildfires destroyed forests and killed children and adults; some died in thei...

Regresso a Sizalinda

Irreversible

A tormented psychologist and an inspector unite to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal...

As Meninas Exemplares

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few ye...

Grand Tour

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

Aquí

In a new land where everyone receives a new name and begins again without a past, Simón takes responsibility fo...

Mulheres, às armas!

Memórias do Cárcere

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the...

Daqui Houve Resistência

Blood Curse

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt...

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the c...

The Englishman's Papers

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would...

O Dez

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

Letters from War

In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serv...

Dot.com

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the vill...

Vanity

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

Dialogues After the End

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, bu...

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...

Colo

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemp...

A Imitação

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the day...

Nenhum Nome

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man...

The Sibyl

In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives...

Blood'less' Revolution

In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.

A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor

A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between...

Entre os Dedos

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to...

The Worst Man in London

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art de...

Remains of the Wind

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenage...

The Fifth Empire

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

Bunker

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds her...