Manuel Mozos

Providence and the Guitar

In a distant past, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, itinerant artists, make their living hopping from town to town....

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

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

Bruno Aleixo's Film

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest fri...

Vertiges

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice direc...

How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to creat...

Technoboss

The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the coun...

Légua

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determ...

Demain?

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, b...

A Portuguese Film

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal

On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production co...

Primeira Obra

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the d...

Love Lights

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essenc...

Rex Inutilis

Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine,...

A Woman's Revenge

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

Poor George

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position an...

The Heart's Root

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The sto...

Drifters of a shadowy dream

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the s...

Veneno Cura

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the da...

O Capacete Dourado

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroad...

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 Portuguese Nun

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where s...

Encoberto

Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store wi...

Reaping Cherries

O que eu vi quando me mostraram a ecografia não acreditei. Dentro do meu útero havia milhares de minúsculos ser...

The Journey

A filmmaker and an actress travel towards a remote location, in search of a particular house, and of inspiratio...

Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos

In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the...

Lovely Child

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would...

A Few Things Happening by a River

A group of teenagers floats down the river, pretending to be dead for social media. One of them drifts away.

Times Are Changing, Not Me

Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.

Uma História do Espectador de Cinema

Far Away from Here

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region...

Don't Look Away

Four film critics, accompanied by the discreet presence of a director, analyse the origins of their cinephilia.

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...

A Noite do Golpe de Estado

The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the cr...

Christmas Inventory

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.

Pai Natal

The story of a young cinephile, who, coming from Braga, arrives in Lisbon, where he found a peculiar and fleeti...

Tempos de Escola