The Ornithologist

The Ornithologist 2016

6.10

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

2016

Civil War

Civil War 2010

6.50

Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's vitality fascinates him.

2010

Flores

Flores 2017

6.10

In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.

2017

The King's Body

The King's Body 2012

4.70

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

2012

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo 2016

1

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?

2016

André's Eyes

André's Eyes 2015

8.00

André's Eyes is an experimental docudrama in which the actual family members themselves participate in the recreation of their own story. Set in a small village in the Portuguese countryside, the film follows the struggle of a divorced father to keep his family together after his youngest son is taken away from them and placed in a foster family.

2015

The Last Time I Saw Macao

The Last Time I Saw Macao 2012

6.40

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.

2012

As the Flames Rose

As the Flames Rose 2012

5.00

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

2012

Hell

Hell 2011

4.70

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

2011

Red Dawn

Red Dawn 2011

5.20

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.

2011

Urban Landscape with Girl and Plane

Urban Landscape with Girl and Plane 2008

1

Boy meets girl. The daily life of Dino and Helena is difficult and the grief is growing in a way that encloses them while they search for an urgent solution.

2008

Goodnight Cinderella

Goodnight Cinderella 2014

5.10

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair.

2014

Pedro

Pedro 2016

5.10

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.

2016

Versailles

Versailles 2013

5.20

An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moments of clarity, she will persuade him to kill her.

2013

The Flesh

The Flesh 2010

5.20

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptures address any punishment for her sins.

2010

Driving Lesson

Driving Lesson 2015

1

While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it's not too late to take action.

2015

The Streets

The Streets 2016

10.00

Las calles could be regarded as a film about words, about describing and naming, about secrets and confessions, and about language as the matter of memory. In a dialogue between generations, young people are responsible for elaborating the question, and School is the place that tries to come up with a technique for it. In turn, the elderly answer through their stories, which are basically the story of the town. And like the word –which is always a fiction– builds a reality, the film sustains its tone on that intermediate area in which a fictional setting provides the conditions for the pure documentary genre to mark the pace and reach out to people.

2016

China, China

China, China 2007

6.50

China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with iniquity and purgatory is a kindergarten...

2007