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- A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- Documentary about the old people living in the highest floors of old buildings with no lifts, in Lisbon.
- IZIDINE, a recently promoted Police Detective, is called to an elderdy home set in a former colonial fortress to investigate a crime: VASTO EXCELÊNCIO, the home's director has been murdered. MARTA, the home's nurse tries to steer the investigation to the real crime, the home's very own existence. IZIDINE is confronted with a surprise: all the residents confess that they are the murderer. Their motives going from the way the director treated the elderly, beating them, the domestic violence perpetrated by the director on his own wife's, or the nurse confessing a love affair with the deceased who forced her to have an abortion. The detective will slowly discover that the real crime was a revenge. The director used the Home to smuggle weapons, which the elderly made disappear, sentencing him to be killed by his buddy criminals.
- Fifty years past the beginning of Portugal's African war to preserve the nationalist ideal of a country dispersed through three continents, a number of women speak up for the first time about the effects of that war on their lives, on the lives of their families or boyfriends, and some even on their participation on the war itself, as the first women nurses from the ace parachutist team the Army created then.
- Born in Lisbon during the Fascist Regime in order to control students coming from the portuguese overseas colonies, the Casa Estudantes do Império, was fundamental to the independence movements in the colonies.
- The documentary is about the work of plastic artist Carlos Nogueira. Multidisciplinary artist, one of the most important contemporary Portuguese authors.
- Woman seeks house to domesticate. Wants sensitive, versatile space, any age, with sense of humor. Offers availability of feelings. Has references. Timetable to be arranged.
- "Stop Don't Stop" is a documentary about the survival of a space and the people who inhabit it.
- How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
- The paths of pain are populated by men and women of all ages, suffering from lack of affection, lack of money, mental problems, alcoholism and drug addiction, or they are simply people who have come to Portugal in search of a life that is a little better. On the other side of this path there is a veritable anthill of volunteers, social welfare workers and different technical assistants who construct and maintain support structures, some of them thinking of better days, and others institutionalising this help without believing that the phenomenon can be cured.
- Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.
- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- Version by Velha Gaiteira of the song "Senhora do Almortão", to integrate the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the 25th of April, by the Municipality of Lisbon, in Terreiro do Paço.
- Júlia is a 16 year old teenager. A sudden emergency hospital commitment helps her realize, although reluctant, that she suffers from a serious disease: nervous anorexy.
- Letters from Angola is a voyage into a forgotten past where several stories intersect - that of Angolan-born filmmaker Dulce Fernandes and those of the Cubans who fought in the Angolan war. A journey through today's Cuba, the film uncovers the lost connection to a land left behind and it's a poetic reflection on the fragile place of the individual in the midst of the tectonic movements of history.
- Private Property is made of a thick substance that comes from a mixture of cement, desire, past dreams, lies, lime, wicked games, pain, a hidden camera, water, time that goes by, blood and threatening danger.
- This documentary proposes a look into those who, during the Portuguese Colonial War, had the simultaneous responsibility of fighting with their battalion and permanently register that mission, through photography and film.
- The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
- The story of a homeless man and his journey.
- Recording for RTP of Olga Roriz's choreography for the Companhia Nacional de Bailado.
- Two characters of a Portuguese film question their brief existence.
- Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
- In the city of Nampula, in northern Mozambique, an artists association has existed for over 25 years. A community that lives immersed in a creative atmosphere that combines curiosity and resilience.