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- A biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
- The series follows three women - Natália Correia, Snu Abecassis, Vera Lagoa - who became major players in the cultural revolution that preceded the fall of the dictatorship that ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. Based on true events.
- In a village inexplicably haunted by a plague of zombies, Lucio, an honest worker, is the only person who can fight them. He has matrimonial problems and hides Ana, his adorable wife, now transformed in a horrible zombie with a violent behaviour and a bad attitude, in the basement of his house. This situation is temporarily forgotten in the local bar, where the strange inhabitants of the village get refuge. It's here where Lucio discovers again another chance for love in the relationship he starts up with Nancy, but the relation is threatened by the strange creatures and by the mortal jealousy of his wife. Will Lucio handle all his problems with the power of a gun and a cutlass?
- At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
- Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The fight for survival and power will flip the moral and social values of those days.
- The life of poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage focusing on his eccentric way of life and his erotic poems.
- TV Mini SeriesThe fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.
- A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
- A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
- Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration.
- Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to give him a ride home - but they won't reach their expected destination.
- "I was in Lisbon and remembered you" is a Brazil-Portugual co-production, based on the book by the prized Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato. The film was directed by the Portuguese director, José Barahona, who has also written the screenplay. Barahona has been living in Brazil for the last years. This is his first feauture filme. The shooting took place in the small town of Cataguases, Brazil and in Lisbon, Portugal. "In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose working with amateur actors and non-actors in both cities, so their own life stories and experiences could be in the film. I did the other way round from the writer. He found these people and made them characters of his book. I looked for people who had similar stories to those described in the book, and made them characters of my film. When I read the book, I was seduced by its "false documentary" characteristic. The book was all written as if it was the transcription of an oral interview the writer had done in Lisbon. I decided to keep this narrative in the film, by a narration with the main character talking to the camera. It's a film about emigration. About dreams and disappointments," says Barahona.
- During a trip on the upper Rio Negro, in the deep Amazon, the director seeks a language imposed on the indigenous population by the ancient colonizers. Through this mixed language, Nheengatu, and sharing the footage with the local people, the film is constructed at the meeting of two worlds.
- 1st February 1908, the King Carlos I of Portugal was shot upon his return to Lisboa, but what lies underneath this violent fact?
- The Portuguese poet and anthropologist, Ruy Cinatti, and his nomadic experience in East Timor: while preserving the cultural identity of the People and its territory, he becomes a Timorese.
- Life has moved too fast for Mane. at the age of 50 he watches the slow sacrifice of his ideals. His wife, Lucy, has locked him in to a daily routine. His work in a small commercial shop and grocer's has worn him out. His dreams have evaporated into the drought of the beaten earth of Mindelo. Now forgotten, with his past as a great football player for Mindelense, in St Vincent in Cape Verde, he only has the belated compassion of his friends, neighbours, and cafe companions: "He was important", "He was the keeper in Cape Verde", "He could have played for Benfica!" Mane rejects the loss of his status as a hero. When training a youth team he sees himself again in KALU, a rebellious but talented youth. He is guided by a whirlwind of thoughts; he was also young, had opportunities, felt the sting of love and wasted his flame. A beaten leather ball shines in his hands once again, Benfica, his club, calls him to the Portuguese Cup Final.
- Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment gathering dust where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofias mother to help take care of the house and also her son. But where is he, this son who never shows his face? It is the appearance of Bobô, Mariama's younger sister, who awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand and to get out of her shell. Behind a resolute smile, Mariama is in fear for young Bobô, about to undergo female genital mutilation by the hands of their grandmother. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariana makes them confront their own private ghosts. BOBÔ is without doubt a film from a strong female perspective, not aiming the tangible but the trascendental. The film tackles universal questions such as death, the order of the world, the unnameable.
- Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner, by successively meeting up with young strangers.
- Jorge is a lonely writer of popular fiction. At night, he looks through lighted up windows at people in their homes and thinks, yes, they are happy. One day, chance, he thinks, takes him to the house where Laura lives with her son André, and through the big windows, Jorge discovers the picture of a perfect life. But perfect lives are only perfect when you view them from the outside. If you look closely, nothing is as it seems: Laura's previous husband disappeared mysteriously and strange phone calls disturb the serene Laura. This doesn't scare Jorge. He wants to protect her. He invents the perfect man for Laura, a man for her to love and in that way enters that wonderful world that he thinks he knows.
- Life is as unchanging as ever in the village: the sun sets between memories. The arrival of a young outsider changes everything. The old are offered a new gift and they accept it. The dreams awaken an old song which pulses through the village. 'With Fate driving the cart of everything along the road of nothing.'
- The story of Edições Aphrodite and Fernando Ribeiro de Mello, the flamboyant Portuguese book publisher of the 60s and 70s, who always wanted to publish against the established power, before and after the April 1974 revolution.
- What remains of the 1940s and 1950s collective memory of Mindelo's two cinemas, and the two amateur groups who produced three 8mm films out of their love for cinema.
- It is said that there is a lost manuscript by Fradique Mendes in a monastery in Cairu, a small city located south of Salvador.