Pedro Hestnes

April Captains

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist polic...

Agosto

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

Malvadez

Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city i...

Blood

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father...

The Mountains of the Moon

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

Body Rice

Since 1980 German institutions send teens to the south of Portugal under experimental projects of social rehabi...

Lobos

Second Hand

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks th...

Love Torn in a Dream

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind...

Casa de Lava

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sle...

Doctor Chance

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other...

Hard Times

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Here on Earth

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a finan...

Tall Stories

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn fo...

A Cura

Pandora

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to...

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...

Xavier

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

Cinerama

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take re...

Os Cornos de Cronos

A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.

Step by Step

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he work...

Three Palm Trees

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last...

Guardian Angel

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on ph...

A Casa Esquecida

Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they m...

Uma Cerveja no Inverno

Rio Turvo

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to...