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- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsRegina CaséLima DuarteStênio GarciaA true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
- DirectorChico TeixeiraStarsCarla RibasBerta ZemelVinicius Faria ZinnAlice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother, and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Although she's a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals she didn't know existed.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsThiago da Silva MarizWallison Felipe Leal BarrosoMaria Juliana Souza de OliveiraThiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
- DirectorAna Luiza AzevedoStarsEduardo CardosoMurilo GrossiCaroline GuedesThe countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope. Later he offers to help Lucas with some duties at the school laboratory, but when the Daniel realizes that his friend is dating Mim, he blows up and breaks the laboratory, leaving the key in the door. Lucas is blamed by the headmaster and is suspended from classes and examinations. Daniel decides to tell the headmaster the truth and learns that a laptop was stolen from the lab.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsFrancisco MiguezDenise FragaFiukMano has to deal with adolescence dilemmas and his family destruction, after his father leaves their house.
- DirectorMarcos BernsteinStarsFernanda MontenegroRaul CortezLaura CardosoA retired woman spends her days snooping everybody in her neighborhood as a police informant. When she thinks she sees a man murder a woman, but the death is seen as natural by the police, she decides to prove she was right.
- DirectorRudi LagemannStarsAntonio CalloniOtávio AugustoDarlene GlóriaIn 2002, 12-year-old Maria, living in dire poverty with her family, is sold by her fisherman father to prostitute recruiter Seu Tadeu, who takes her to a low-class brothel in the Amazon region. While she suffers innumerable abuses, Maria only thinks of escaping the horrible conditions she's faced with.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsRodrigo SantoroOthon BastosCássia KisA trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesNando OlivalStarsCláudia MissuraGraziella MorettoLena RoqueFive maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better. As Roxane says, no child sets out to become a maid. But once there, are all other doors closed?
- DirectorPaolo Marinou-BlancoStarsRobert PughNuno LopesRita LoureiroTwo solitary men embark on a journey to find a missing woman, driven by friendship, a desire for freedom, and a wish to taste life to the fullest.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesJoão Rui Guerra da MataStarsCindy ScrashJoão Rui Guerra da MataJoão Pedro RodriguesTwo filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in Macao - have a dialog with the memories of the East built by the codes of the cinema and the literature - memories lived on a featured reality-, creating a testimony which tries to raise the veil on the past and the present time. A personal album of physical and emotional geography, structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of the history challenges the reality.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsLázaro RamosMarcelia CartaxoFlavio BauraquiLoose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorMatheus NachtergaeleStarsDaniel de OliveiraJuliano CazarréJackson AntunesSantinho is a young man considered to be a saint after performing a miracle following his mother's suicide, in a riverside community in the Alto Amazonas.
- DirectorJoão FalcãoStarsPaulo AutranGustavo FalcãoMariana XimenesKarina has 2 dreams: to become an actress & to see the world. Antonio is in love with her. He promises to bring the world to "Nordestina", a village in the sticks of Brazil. This backwater village has 2 population groups: those who are leaving, and those who are thinking about leaving. Antonio leaves in what appears to be a suicide crusade - openly promising on TV that he will give his Karina all she could wish for, or he'll face a deadly machine he has invented. To challenge fate, he also declares that he'll travel into the future. The day he has to make good on his promises, all "Nordestina" is there, expecting Antonio to realize his promises.
- DirectorToni VenturiStarsDebora DubocClaudio JaborandyLena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman wanted for a crime he committed in São Paulo. Colonel Mattos was Vilela's superior, and his presence is continually felt by the pair. Two further elements add texture to the plot - the inhospitable landscape and the new baby's crying, which slowly makes life unbearable for the couple. Based on an original stage play by Fernando Bonassi, the film delves into the souls of two Brazilians isolated in one of the country's nameless reaches. A love story and a metaphor taken to extremes: a glimpse at an unequal society which excludes many of its citizens, pushing them into violent adventures of love and death.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsFernando TeixeiraCaio BlatMatheus NachtergaeleA man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
- DirectorVicente AmorimGuillermo ArriagaStephan ElliottStarsBasil HoffmanEmily MortimerRodrigo SantoroThird installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature-film is made of 10 stories of romance set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- DirectorAndre Alves PintoCésar RodriguesStarsPaolla OliveiraChico AnysioSuely FrancoAfter studying in the capital, the teacher Cate returns to her small town in Minas Gerais to teach at primary school in the early 40's. Her way of teaching students delights and irritates the other teachers. She just wants to give students something essential to education: enthusiasm.
- DirectorBeto BrantRenato CiascaStarsJúlio AndradeLuiz Carlos V. CoelhoMarcos ContrerasIn Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspiring actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.
- DirectorBeto BrantRenato CiascaStarsCamila PitangaGustavo MachadoZécarlos MachadoThe photographer Cauby moves and settles down in a small town in the countryside of Pará. When he meets the model Lavínia, who is the wife of Pastor Ernani, they have a torrid love affair. Cauby asks Lavínia to leave her husband and the town with him but she refuses. Cauby does not know about the dishonored past of his muse and her gratitude to Ernani, who saved her from the streets and the drugs. Meanwhile, the snoopy and gossiper journalist Viktor Laurence receives compromising pictures of Lavínia naked, posing for Cauby. When Viktor and Ernani are found dead and Lavínia is missing, Cauby becomes the prime suspect of Sheriff Polozzi with tragic consequences for his life.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsBeatriz BatardaVirgílio CasteloDébora MonteiroA psychiatrist married to a financial executive is intrigued by a young call girl prone to panic attacks and they begin circling each other.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJosé CunhaMarta LeitãoJosé Nuno MartinsArtur, in Lisbon for his holidays, wanders aimlessly, and is picked-up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come together, find common roots in their rural background, but their union comes to an end, as someone from Joana's past interferes.
- DirectorJorge Silva MeloStarsManuel WiborgLia GamaSylvie Rocha
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsCarloto CottaSandra FaleiroVítor AndradeWhen João Lucas meets Maria and follows her home, he would have never guessed that she would lock him in a room without letting him out.
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsAna MoreiraIsabel RuthBruno BravoAdriana looks for a man who do beget a child and thus ensure the seed on the island she lives with her father.
- DirectorJorge CramezStarsEduardo FrazãoAna MoreiraRogério SamoraThe darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
- DirectorJorge CramezStarsRicardo AibéoAna BrandãoAna MoreiraVenus Velvet is a story of love that lasts no longer than the brief period before the fall of a comet; a love story set against the background of the possibility of the world's ending.
- DirectorJúlio Maria PessoaStarsElias AndreatoLeonardo MiggiorinAntonio RobertoStoryline In the suburb of Sao Paulo, this banal love story takes place. A common family, father, mother, two children, the dog, and - - the hidden!
- DirectorSelton MelloStarsLeonardo MedeirosDarlene GlóriaPaulo GuarnieriCaio is 40 years old and lives in the country of Rio de Janeiro, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On the Christmas Eve he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a long time: himself.
- DirectorNando OlivalStarsGabriel GodoyVictor MendesJuliana SchalchThree young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
- DirectorCecília AmadoGuy GonçalvesStarsJean AmorimAna GracielaRoberio LimaAbout the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
- DirectorVicente AmorimStarsWagner MouraCláudia AbreuRavi Ramos LacerdaA man and his family travel 3200km (1984 miles) by bicycle, from the State of Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in search of a job.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsMatheus NachtergaeleJonas BlochDira PaesShort stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground.
- DirectorSelton MelloStarsSelton MelloPaulo JoséLarissa ManoelaFather and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.
- DirectorAndré KlotzelStarsAna Lúcia TorreGermano HaiutSelton MelloElvira's blender tells her story with her husband, Onofre, who's gone missing, and makes reflections about life.
- DirectorGustavo SpolidoroStarsKarina KazueLindon Satoru ShimizuArtur PintoThe film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
- DirectorPetrus CariryStarsLeuda BandeiraVeronica CavalcantiNanego LiraThe elderly Perpétua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.
- DirectorGuel ArraesStarsMatheus NachtergaeleSelton MelloRogério CardosoFollows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
- DirectorJosé Eduardo BelmonteStarsJuliano CazarréMilhem CortazMurilo GrossiA group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsJessica WeissJoão LagartoAndré CostaPresents, cake, good friends, and a cute birthday song!
- DirectorBernardo NascimentoStarsClive RussellBaltazarGrant MastersAn isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.
- DirectorJosé Miguel RibeiroStarsDora BernardoJoão CatarinoMafalda VilhenaThe "Train Killer" is on the loose; and a young traveller on a train ride growingly begins to suspect that the actual murderer is amongst the other 3 occupants of his cabin. (Language: Portuguese (Portugal; Duration: 24.39 minutes)
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsVítor NorteDiogo InfanteJosé EduardoTwo simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsDiogo InfanteAntónio MeloFernanda SerranoA group of innocent hostages is left to his own death facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRui MorissonJoão ReisMaria João PinhoSalvador knew Constança and Santiago. he did not know but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constança did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constance and Salvador. In a sense, each one lives in a state of mild amnesia: the inevitable 'who I am?' widens, is transfigured and echoes in a plural and disturbing 'do not know who you are?'
- DirectorJosé NascimentoStarsNuno MeloCatarina WallensteinFrancisco NascimentoJoaquim left the house of his brother. The niece supplicates runs behind him. There was a crime with unclear outlines and an escape from the house where it all happened. They sleep in abandoned houses and love each other.
- DirectorCatarina RuivoStarsEdgar MoraisAdelaide de SousaAntónio Pedro FigueiredoDora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
- DirectorJoaquim SapinhoStarsAmélia CorôaLudovic VideiraMaria SilvaA young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.
- DirectorJoaquim SapinhoStarsJoana BarataPedro SousaJoão CardosoInês finds out her brother came back from Australia. She wants to be a surfer like him so she runs away from home. Rafael surfs at Guincho like he wants to die. Surfing no longer matters to him, only the sky, as if he searched for it underwater. Inês realizes that, despite what her mother said, her brother was in a convent, and that he is returning. She has no one to stay with her at Guincho. Returning home to her mother and back to school, she feels lost. She can't live like she used to anymore. At the convent, Rafael can't find the peace he was looking for and he's still at this side of Resurrection. Their mother doesn't know, but she is truly the one who has reached the limit. Perhaps are the limits what holds a family together?
- DirectorRosa Coutinho CabralStarsRita MartinsJoão CabralRafael d'AlmeidaA reporter conducting an interview on an old pigeon breeder becomes increasingly fascinated with the man's enigmatic niece.
- DirectorFrederico BejaStarsLuís VeríssimoSandra SantosEloy MonteiroPedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzMarcelo GomesStarsIrandhir SantosA geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.
- DirectorAluizio AbranchesStarsAlexandre BorgesJúlia LemmertzRuth de SouzaThe torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist.
- DirectorHerman BarckRodrigo Diaz DiazJoana GalvãoStarsMariana BarrosCintia BonsaiDeh BonsaiA collection of short movies by Brazilian film makers, made to break stereotypical opinions, and celebrate differences as well as create a little stir.
- DirectorJorge AntónioStarsCanto e CastroAfonso MeloMena
- DirectorFernando VendrellStarsCarlos GermanoBetina LopesPaulo MirandaLife 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.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsNuno SimõesJoão CabralGuilherme DuarteAfter the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsVítor NorteMaria d'AiresJoão LagartoRui Sequeira (Vitor Norte), a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsIsabel RuthJoana BárciaFilipe CochofelNela Calheiros, a Portuguese designer on the peak of her career, falls for the daughter of one of her seamstresses, the mysterious Mila, and throws her into the world of fashion.
- DirectorMarcelo GalvãoStarsChristiano CochraneDeto MontenegroAntônio DestroWhat to do when drugs are found in a classroom of 10-year-old children? A parents' meeting will discuss such taboo in a very unconventional way: having a joint.
- DirectorArnaldo JaborStarsSonia BragaPaulo César PeréioVera FischerMan meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
- DirectorRosemberg CariryStarsChico DíazDira PaesChico AlvesCruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.
- DirectorMalu De MartinoStarsAna Paula ArósioMurilo RosaNatália LageJulia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.
- DirectorSandra WerneckStarsMurilo BenícioCarolina FerrazEmílio de MelloFifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?
- DirectorMarco DutraJuliana RojasStarsHelena AlbergariaMarat DescartesNaloana LimaYoung housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otavio is suddenly fired from his job as an insurance executive, Helena is left to support the family alone. As Otavio fails to find work and becomes increasingly alienated, business struggles to take off and the pressure on Helena mounts. To make things worse, she discovers that one of the building's brick walls seems to be crumbling. Helena begins to wonder if that may be the cause of all her problems.
- DirectorCatarina RuivoStarsPedro HestnesRita DurãoLuís Miguel CintraJorge 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.
- DirectorLuciano MouraStarsWagner MouraLima DuarteMariana LimaA man who has put his career ahead of everything else in life learns the value of family when his son goes missing.
- DirectorAluizio AbranchesStarsMarieta SeveroJúlia LemmertzMaria Luísa MendonçaWoman uses her three daughters to avenge their father and brothers, killed by a jealous ex-fiancé.
- DirectorInês OliveiraStarsSofia MarquesDiogo DóriaRicardo AibéoHumberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnap the company's director in an act of despair.
- DirectorLeon CakoffDaniela ThomasWolfgang BeckerStarsCaetano VelosoThe city of São Paulo, as seen through the lenses of 13 directors.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsBeatriz BatardaMiguel NunesIsrael PimentaVera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want to be happy. Pablo, the companion she selected from among the many who answered her questionnaire, helps her through the sleepless nights. He has no family, but wishes he had. Vera concerns herself with the mysteries surrounding Pablo's life. Vera is not afraid of the night; she is not afraid of anything. Vera has no ties. In her house, far from anywhere, is Sam, the man she loves. They only understand one another at a distance, and in writing. The house is hers, but Sam has turned up to stay. He asks her to leave because he needs to be there alone; near her things but not with her. She is hurt by this but agrees and goes away, leaving him there on his own. A child in Pablo's care commits an irredeemable act; he kills a man. Something needs to be done; the child must be saved. Vera gets involved. She takes the child under her wing. By saving the child, she saves herself. And she saves Sam. The child is the portent of a serene uncertainty.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheEvgeniy SidikhinLisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again - but a trifle too late.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsMaria OlguimHelga LinéArtur SemedoLives of circus performers in times of decay.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsJeanne BalibarNe Change Rien is a 2009 documentary directed by Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. The documentary focuses on the French singer Jeanne Balibar in rehearsal and concert as seen through Costa's characteristically long, stark takes.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVanda DuarteNuno VazMariya LipkinaA suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMaria de MedeirosPaola DominguínOfelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsMiou-MiouCarmen MauraMarthe KellerFive women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesGonçalo Galvão TelesStarsCatarina FurtadoDiogo MorgadoMarco DelgadoIn Portugal, Laura, the wife of a military officer refused for a long time to believe in his husband's death. Against all odds she investigates on her own what happened in Guinea.
- DirectorLauro AntónioStarsMaria do Céu GuerraJoão Perry
- DirectorLauro AntónioStarsAcácia ThieleJorge ValeGuida MariaJosé Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.
- DirectorEduardo GeadaStarsVirgílio CasteloDuarte NunoJoão Franco
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsCarlos VerezaInês de MedeirosMário ViegasAlexandre was trapped in the solitude of his apartment when he discovered that Margarida, a beautiful and cold technocrat, had ran away with a rich American to Switzerland, and took his son Vitor with her.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMichelle ManiaSkyler DaySeveral characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.