Valdemar Santos

Heart of Gold

Magellan

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish cro...

Welcome to Beirais

Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious str...

Lusitânia

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

Amelia’s Children

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high i...

Memórias do Cárcere

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

2' Minutos para Mudar de Vida

Daqui Houve Resistência

3x3D

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three...

Alma Viva

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holi...

Mosquito

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army du...

Magnetick Pathways

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is a...

Lovers on Borders

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served no...

Ornament and Crime

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition...

Dialogues After the End

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

The Amazed Spectator

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: whic...

The Nothingness Club

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgro...

The Sibyl

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

Creeks

In the mid-1940s, in a Portugal mired in poverty and illiteracy, a group of boys work in the potteries of Alhan...

A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor

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

A Santa Joana dos Matadouros

Inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht and filmed in Porto's former industrial slaughterhouse, A Santa Joana do...

The Keeper

Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works c...

Uma Vida Sublime

Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary...

Surdine

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed t...

Hay Road

This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge Hi...

Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controvers...

Liberdade Condicional

Five low-life people find themselves trapped in a public toilet.

Historic Centre

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Cultur...

Consolatio

Maria, a young nurse, despite her stoicism and attitude in the face of Death, is disrupted by a series of event...

Ubu

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this...

Ubi Sunt

Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid an...

The Gravedigger

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A chil...

A Caverna

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

The Scoundrel

The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love fo...

Carga

In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to esca...

Momentos

A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases...