João Bénard da Costa

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors ...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Manoel de Oliveira’s autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their ...

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

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around ...

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of the ...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the ...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about ...

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt’s inn for holidays. First bored, ...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis ...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and ...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, ...