Adelaide João

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the ...

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In ...

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The ...

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites’ directing the ...

How would you react if you couldn’t see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of “Blindness”, by Nobel Prize winner José ...

Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One ...

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother’s death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to ...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “enchanted moura,” sparking a poetic journey that ...

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April ...

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it is a touching descent into the emotional ...

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena’s assistant who walks by his ...

A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe’s Faust. The narrator-protagonist reveals a story ...

The village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba’s former farmhand Georg, who wants to kill them both ...

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the ...

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their ...

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, ...

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early ’30s to the late ’60s, a ...

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira’s The Cannibals.