Cartas a Uma Ditadura

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.

Enterrado na Loucura – Punk em Portugal 78-88 - A Segunda Vaga

Directed by Hugo Conim and Miguel Newton, "Enterrado na Loucura – Punk em Portugal 78-88 - A 2ª Vaga" (“Buried in Insanity – Punk in Portugal 78-88 – The second wave”), continues a history that started to be told in “A Um passo da Loucura - A 1ª Vaga" (“One Step from Insanity – The first wave”) a documentary first screened in 2015. The two documentaries are a faithful and realistic portrait of the first decade of Punk in Portugal. This second documentary starts in 1982 with the birth of a second wave – more combative and involved with the punk scene - of Portuguese punk bands like ‘Crise Total’, ‘Grito Final’, ‘Kú-de-Judas’, Mata-Ratos or Peste & Sida and ends around 1988. The history is told not only by the musicians but also by anonymous punk’s or even concerned parents. It’s an interesting narration that evolves around music but also around aesthetical, political, educational, legal and ethical dimensions of Punk.

La Course de taureaux

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.

Nos Interstícios da Realidade, ou O Cinema de António de Macedo

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?

Regresso à casa de partida antes que a partida seja definitiva

Viva Portugal

Documentary on the Portugese Carnation Revolution and the following processes of self-organisation in military, factories, argicultural cooperatives and municipalities.

Urute vv

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl.

Longe de Cabul

Bull Jumping

Little known on this side of the pond, “course landaise” consists of confronting a bull and dodging his powerful charge by way of acrobatic somersault. French athlete Emmanuel Lataste is the first to try to garner attention in North America for this extreme sport.

Tú solo

In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.

Arquitectura de Peso

Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.

As Pedras e o Tempo

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

Orson Welles in Spain

Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who sets himself apart from other matadors. In front of an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles pontificates on the state of cinema, the filmmaking process, and the art of bullfighting.

A Aldeia mais Portuguesa de Portugal

Torero

Mariano Cruz Ordóñez is an Ecuadorian bullfighter at the end of his artistic career. Mariano was a figure of bullfighting in Ecuador and participated in the most important bullrings of his country and the world. The glory years have passed and prohibitions have arisen regarding bullfighting shows, and the only thing left is, with tenacity and faith, to fight against various adverse circumstances looking for a chance to move foward.

Pérola do Atlântico

Short film narrating the luxuries of Madeira.

Las Toreras

Jackie Brutsche tries to unravel the dark secrets of her family and answer unanswered questions about her mother.

Centro de Dia

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

Portugal: Land of Discoveries

From the beautiful sandy shores of the Algarve and Cascais to the romantic, lush forests of Bucaco and Sintra, Portugal is full of treasures waiting to be discovered. Journey through one of the oldest countries in Europe and uncover the dramatic history of kings, religion and exploration. Cheer for the "cavaleiro" as he skillfully battles the mighty bull; savor the rich wines of The Douro; relish in the medieval architecture of Evora. Enjoy the charm, warmth and spirit of Portugal's people.