Manuela de Freitas

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...

Doomed Love

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

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...

Trails

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

Agosto

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vaca...

The Satin Slipper

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

The Mountains of the Moon

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

Francisca

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

Zeus

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he...

Doomed Love

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

God's Comedy

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

Silvestre

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

Hovering Over the Water

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, s...

The Portuguese Woman

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a...

Come and Go

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work...

The Hips of J.W.

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as w...

Past and Present

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

Lisboa Cultural

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most rel...

Three Less Me

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her se...

Fragments of an Alms-Film

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on li...

The Spousals of God

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the...

Paraíso Perdido

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years bef...

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...

No one Twice

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of a...

Xavier

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world c...

Rosa Negra

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teac...

Haircut

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young coupl...

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...

Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman...

Dina and Django

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-...

Fado Camané

Documentary about the Portuguese singer Camané and the process of creating one of fado's key works, revealing a...

Antes Que o Tempo Mude

Laura doesn't know what to do with her loneliness. She gets involved in multiple games of seduction, unable to...

Far Away from Here

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

A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho