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Past Perfect
🇵🇹 PortugalMany cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.
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Just Retired
🇵🇹 PortugalMarilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
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Phantom Power
🇵🇹 PortugalA young sound director has a task. Rafael must record a crucial sound for a film. With his headphones on he scans the city of Lisbon, looking and listening for this elusive sonic eccentricity – his journey made harder by all sorts of disruptive noises.
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Arriaga
🇵🇹 PortugalOn the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.
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Sefarad
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1890sIn 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.
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Lisbon Beat
🇵🇹 PortugalA journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity struggles. Different generations and backgrounds meet, Angola to São Tome, Cabo Verde and Guine Bissau represented by old musicians and young producers.
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The Domain
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1940sThe chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
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Fado Tropical
🇵🇹 PortugalTwo brothers are reunited in Lisbon to throw their father's ashes in three places in Portugal. This journey opens up affective issues between the brothers, where the past and the present refer to each other.
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The Age of Anxiety
🇵🇹 PortugalLove, fear and anxiety. A couple spends their last night together, in Lisbon, before one of them leaves for another country. A romantic night gives way to unspoken tensions in their life's turbulent present and the world's uncertain future.
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Keep Me Company
🇵🇹 PortugalSílvia rents a house for the weekend in the south of Portugal with the intention of meeting her secret lover, Clara. Between tanning sessions and swims in the pool, this perfect couples weekend begins to take a turn due to a mysterious evil. Strange events that occur in the house will change their relationship and personal lives forever.
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Sophia, In Her Own Words
🇵🇹 PortugalUsing the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using parts of her prose and poetry always with first-person testimonies; from Porto to Lisbon, from Granja to Lagos, from the Atlantic Sea to the Mediterranean, from Greece to 25 April: the passions and disappointments of a life and work dedicated to the search for the real, freedom and justice.
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Carnaval Sujo
🇵🇹 PortugalPedro and Inês, a couple, travel from Lisbon to watch Ovar's Carnaval. They get lost in the swamp of Ria, where they almost run over Teresa, a missing child. Teresa runs away, and Pedro and Inês search for her in the lagoon, white also protecting her from a strange and dangerous group of masked people who also look for the child called the Dominos.
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A Punk Named Ribas
🇵🇹 PortugalIn Portugal, João Ribas is synonymous with punk: he boosted several important Portuguese bands, influenced generations of young musicians and crossed, as main figure, different waves of this musical and cultural movement in the country. Lead vocalist and guitarist for Tara Perdida, Ribas was also the founder of Censurados and Ku de Judas groups. "Um Punk Chamado Ribas", by Paulo Antunes, is a portrait of a man made by those who worked with him, with the participation of family and friends.
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Sério Fernandes - The Master of Oporto’s School
🇵🇹 PortugalForty years ago, Sério Fernandes was a television advertising director and owner of one of the most successful advertising companies in Portugal. That's when he decides to leave everything to focus on his own movies. Nowadays, Sério Fernandes is known as the master of Oporto’s school.
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The Night's Advices
🇵🇹 PortugalThe First Film Made in Braga — Roberto, a retired and disappointed journalist, leaves his work in a farm and goes back to his hometown, Braga, which he thinks will be his last hiding place. However, in returning, he feels a strong energy in the city and between journeys to the past and an intense night life, a new chapter arises.
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O Que Vai Acontecer Aqui?
🇵🇹 PortugalA film on the social movements upholding the right to live in the city of Lisbon at a time when the struggle for urban space builds up as the result of the expansion of financial capitalism, which concentrates wealth in the hands of a few and increases social inequality. A film on those who challenge the conversion of the city into merchandise and disobey injustice by empowering those who seek a place to live.
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Flumen
🇵🇹 PortugalIn a village of the portuguese interior, David, a landfill worker in his thirties, has a hard decision to make: move in with his girlfriend to the capital, fighting for their increasingly weakened relation, or go on living with his mother, that couldn't handle the household expenses by herself.
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
🇵🇹 PortugalChildhood, Boyhood, Youth is a gripping coming-of-age story set within the walls of the National Conservatory Dance School in Lisbon, Portugal. The film takes us into the little-known world of classical dance, letting us witness moments of learning, rivalry and bonding between the students as they are put to the test during three key moments that will determine the rest of their lives.
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Behind Doors
🇵🇹 PortugalIn the small town of Reguengo Grande, Portugal lives Bênção, known as the living saint. People come from all over the world to be emotionally touched by this saint. The only problem is that Bênção isn't sure if all this power people believe in, is real anymore and starts questioning everything.
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Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1980sIn the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte).
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Ramiro
🇵🇹 PortugalA Delicate Comedy — Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.
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My Story
🇵🇹 PortugalJay is an aspiring actor. When a pretty and talented Thara, an established heroine, falls in love with him, he is forced to make a difficult choice.
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Djon Africa
🇵🇹 PortugalMiguel —alias Tibars, alias “Djon África,” born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, “a player and a crook.” His father, whom he never even knew! This intriguing discovery makes him change tack. Particularly when his grandmother, who always took care of him, finally tells him how his father was in prison; how sad Miguel was as a toddler when he couldn't see him; how his father was banished to Cape Verde. Miguel goes there to visit him. Who is this man?
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Bostofrio
🇵🇹 PortugalIn a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.
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Rage
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1950sAlentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
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Leviano
🇵🇹 PortugalIn the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal.
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Ruth
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1960s1960. The event that stirred up Portugal. — This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
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Diamantino
🇵🇹 PortugalA disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.
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Love, New Avenues
🇵🇹 PortugalManel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress.
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You See the Moon
🇵🇹 PortugalLisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.
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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1920sLisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
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Luminous Shadow
🇵🇹 PortugalA meditation on the human form and its many representations over the centuries, this archaeological essay compiles images of statues, photos, sketches, and news clippings from Portugal’s Jose de Guimarães International Arts Centre. The filmmakers conjure a slipstream of interrelated origin stories via brief bits of narration and tableaux of various animal and mineral elements.
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Setembro a Vida Inteira
🇵🇹 PortugalOne country. 700 million bottles. Over 2000 years of history. In every calendar, the die is cast in September. Men, women and children measure their lives in harvests. The world has only begun to discover Portuguese wine, A Whole Life of September invites the viewer to embark on a journey through the intimacy of vineyards, cellars and souls, unveiling passions, crimes and adventures. A universal theme with the local alchemy. But this cinematographic documentary is also about passion, freedom and faith, inviting to reflect about the human nature and the relationship between landowners and those who work the land. Because nothing else ferments like a good story, wine people are the passport to understand Portugal.
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45 Days Away from You
🇵🇹 PortugalAfter having broken up with his boyfriend of 8 years and having his heart broken by his rebound guy, Rafael decided to get away and meet three friends in different countries: Julia in England, Fábio in Portugal and Mayara in Argentina. They all hold a special place in his life and will provide comfort.
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Marconi City
🇵🇹 PortugalThe landscape of a hill is marked by the standstill of the several real estate projects that intend to transform it. — The perception of a photograph is demystified by the study of its landscape – the landscape of a hill marked by the standstill of the several real estate projects that intend to transform it (between two sides of a municipal border, on the outskirts of Lisbon).
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How Many Times Have You Dreamt About Me?
🇵🇹 PortugalDeparting from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
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Campo
🇵🇹 Portugal“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon, “Campo” hosts today Europe’s largest military base. In this place military troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the piano for the wild deers lurking in the dark.
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Geni
🇵🇹 PortugalEverything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, a mythical place of Porto. Between advances and retreats, between the increasing opening of the director and his character, the film reveals the unique portrait of a woman, a neighbourhood - Cedofeita - and the improbable relationships we establish when we least expect it. Luís Vieira Campos proves, with Geni, that cinema is also the "neighbourhood" and its people.
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Sousa Martins
🇵🇹 PortugalThe doctor of the King of Portugal was so good in his hospital practice, that after his death both King and country peasants worshiped him - to this day, 120 years later.
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Marias da Sé
🇵🇹 PortugalA typical day in Porto's Cathedral, between tourists and the local community. A peculiar group of women grabs our attention...
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Portugal Tem Lata
🇵🇹 PortugalPortuguese people are connected to the sea. With much of its border bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, it will not be surprising that comes from here a huge slice of our income. The fish canning industry, one of the most emblematic and old Portuguese industries, was again very fashionable, partly because of the musician and singer, founder of the mythical Heróis do Mar and the LX-90, Rui Pregal da Cunha, that opened a restaurant in honour of the national canning industry and fado - Can the Can. Now, Pregal da Cunha, who has always liked to position himself behind the camera, tells us this story. Part of the History of Portugal.
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Raised from the Ground
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1980sThe place of memories and the struggle against oblivion can take many forms, something that is transversal to these two films and the work of Daniel Blaufuks. In Judenrein, meaning free of Jews, the director examines amateur footage of the 1980s in a small Polish village, rescued to find answers about his story, in a biographical reflection. In Levantados do Chão, a philharmonic band traverses an abandoned hotel in the Azores, and the emptiness left by the ruins thus refers to a past that is still present and prevalent.
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Il Sogno Mio d'Amore
🇵🇹 PortugalFor two years, we filmed in an ancient convent of the seventeenth century, which houses the Conservatory of Music of Lisbon. Moved by our love for this anachronistic place, for the music that is played there and for the richness of its teaching, Il Sogno mio d'amore immerses us into the universe of the transmission of music between teachers and pupils. Sounds and words mingle with gestures, form a unique language and reveal what is most profound in the human being: the expression of his sensibility.
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Vadio - I Am Not A Poet
🇵🇹 PortugalAbandoning a life of petty crime, David strives to fulfill his life-long ambition to become a professional singer of Fado, Portugal's popular folk-song. Together with his best friend Adriano, he starts performing on Lisbon's Fado Vadio circuit to perfect his craft, but whilst Adriano's strong voice swiftly brings him paid gigs, David struggles. Vadio is a human portrait of redemption, perhaps unattainable through music but possible with poetry. Unfortunately, David doesn't want to be a poet. It is a love story for a bygone Lisbon and Fado, where people still find catharsis singing songs about their sorrows.
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The Secret of the Closed House
🇵🇹 PortugalOn the riverside quay of the enormous container port of Lisbon two old decaying sky-blue painted buildings are located directly opposite to each other. One is closed and abandoned, the other inhabited by the two bright and inquisitive girls Ana and Matilde. Watching the closed building every single day and night the sisters get more and more suspicious. Strange phenomenons and movements behind the thick blue walls increase their curiosity. How is possible what their children`s eyes are witnessing? Who are those mysterious neighbours? How to discover old house`s secret?
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Avenida Almirante Reis em 3 Andamentos
🇵🇹 PortugalA chronology of the Avenue Almirante Reis in Lisbon. Its past and present. A portrait of those that inhabit it.
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Caos Danado
🇵🇹 PortugalCreated in parallel to the show Teoria das 3 Idades by Sara Barros Leitão, Caos Danado accompanies this creative process as its departure point. Based on the archive of the Teatro Experimental do Porto, it challenges our capacity to evoke and preserve memories through the various types of perception we possess. Caos Danado is a narrative deconstructed between fiction and documentary (lie vs. truth), because the one is not more important than the other.
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Imensa Saudade
🇵🇹 PortugalDocumentary by Rui Simões, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of Expo 98, one of the biggest exhibitions that Portugal hosted
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Maria
🇵🇹 PortugalMaria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with José, a married man who became her most faithful client but who couldn't help her to escape the hard life. Today this old prostitute continues showing off her body through the long city's nights, though the clients are almost gone. José is still there, but he failed at what she desired the most: a son. In a very intimate and raw portray of a woman, MARIA disclosures how love and getting older can feels like.
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Ordinary Time
🇵🇹 PortugalThe film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interweaving thoughts on the past and the present, and looking at the decline of rural life in the deserted Portuguese hinterland.
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