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- A documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
- The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.
- Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
- How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting point the photographs taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from those close to an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that reveals how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy and recreates the feeling of a family's broken identity.
- In a isolated village in Alentejo, a conflict is experienced. José Vitorino, one of the biggest landowners in the region rich in prehistoric monuments, plans to build a luxurious manor on a site of ancient stones, a place of devotion and practice of sacred rites. Indifferent to the protests of the people, who believe in the magical powers of the "holy stones" and attribute to their destruction the prolonged drought that has been felt in the region, Jose Vitorino hires an architect to make the project for the new house. On Christmas Eve, in the midst of winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a tapir, an altar of bloody sacrifices in the earliest times of prehistory, unleashes a nefarious spell. A struggle "against time" is initiated to nullify the effects of the defective ritual.
- Documentary about the Tarrafal Concentration Camp, located on the island of Santiago "Cape Verde", created by the Portuguese Government of Estado Novo.
- From 4 classified ads published in Ocasião Newspaper offering voluntary help to others, the spirit of communion and sharing reveals itself through music, prayer or even a haircut and a pair of hands available for others use. All depends on the how each person channels their will towards taking action.
- Chronicles of rural life, misadventures from the past century, fights one must win to muster misery and resistance against servitude and wage labor in the South of Portugal.
- The 14 months of field work and the consequent organization of a large oral and visual archive, understanding also that the information gathered from historical sources and oral anthropology was widing the invention of a constructed idea of past, I sought to clarify the distance between this past and the present of a community whose culture is invented and re-created as a sort of 'folkloric' representation progressively more open to the Catholic festivals, the school and the many tourists, the three social and institutional intermediaries constraining the idea of Potiguara culture to be updated. Crossing systematically historical documentation, chronicles, old maps and that huge archive build up from the interviews with chiefs, shamans, healers and several other candidates to the Potiguara political leadership, it was possible to understand the process of invention of their idea of land, social milieu, and mainly present-day cultural manifestations and practices that are preserved through a long term anthropological-historical process associating colonial legacy and its survival and political promotion in the present Potiguara cultural discourse.
- Nothing of what we have created or discovered has distinguished us from the other animals as formidably as we would have wished. We have simply created a world of illusions, without which we will not ourselves survive. This film is just that.
- The Gulbenkian Orchestra celebrates in 2012 its 50th anniversary. This documentary aims to celebrate the anniversary showing the day-to-day backstage musical group, with a clear focus on musicians, soloists and conductors, but also paying homage to all other employees who never step on stage or receive applause. Through the rehearsals, concerts, moments of relaxation, following some musicians in their lives outside of the orchestra, "Interval" will look like as an interesting document on human relationships and valuable witness for the future. An orchestra as a result of many lives crossed. Soft emotions in the routine of gentle gestures known from decades, strong emotions in the unpredictable variable of another concert with new soloists and guest conductors. The moments alone, leisure, the individual. The daily encounters for tuning instruments, choreographing gestures, erect cathedrals. The consonance, dissonance. Cycles, routines, passion, creativity and art.
- Old Monteleone lives alone in a house littered with the relics of his past life in the circus. He hasn't worn his clown suit in years, but now he has good reason to. Today he'll wear his old makeup one last time.