Zita Duarte

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to ...

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic ...

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes ...

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main ...

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter ...

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant ...

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..

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

A nobleman from Alentejo, from a very conservative family, intends to reconquer Olivenza, returning the situation to the times of the Treaty of ...

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by “Renato, o pacíficio” (Renato, the peaceful) and their ...

“Essay on the Military and the Power”, a phrase that also belongs to the title of “Gestures & Fragments”, sums up the ...

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize ...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer ...

“A Princesinha das Rosas” is about Naíde, a girl born from the union between a fisherman and a mermaid, adopted by monarchs of a country with no ...