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Double Play: James Benning e Richard Linklater
2013
A documentary portrait of the friendship between two renowned American filmmakers: James Benning – an experimental filmmaker with a 40-year career, of films such as "One Way Boogie Woogie" (1977), "13 Lakes" (2004) e "RR" (2007) – and Richard Linklater – director of "Before Sunrise" (1995),...
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8816 Versos
2013
It is said that Camões took 20 years to write the 8,816 verses that compose the Portuguese epic poem "The Lusiads". Actor António Fonseca dedicated four years of his life to memorize them. The film documents the year before his 2012 oral presentation of the poem at an event celebrating Guimarães...
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The Gilded Cage
2013
Maria and José Ribeiro are Portuguese emigrants that have been living in France for over 30 years. The couple inhabit in an apartment building situated in a luxury neighborhood in Paris. Maria is the concierge and José, her husband, is a builder. They are beloved by the French, who appreciate...
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Bobô
2013
Sofia lives all isolated in an old apartment, a place where even the dust seems to be preserved. One day, her mother brings Mariama, a young Guinean woman, to help out with the housework. Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, will make Sofia want to come out her shell. Behind her trustworthy smile,...
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After the Night
2013
Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can’t get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts to think that he might have been better off in the...
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The Great Kilapy
2012
Joãozinho is a young man from Angola descending from a rich family of the colonial period. This mestizo only wants to enjoy life by going out with girls, having fun with his friends and spending his money. Although he is a high-ranking executive of the National Bank of Angola, he divers funds from...
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3x3D
2013
Centered in the two-thousand-year-old city of Guimarães, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, explore 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. "Greenaway’s Just in Time" explores the city’s two millennia of history around the Palace of the Dukes of...
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Historic Centre
2012
A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães, in the North of Portugal. What stories does the city where the Kingdom of Portugal was born in have to tell us? The answer to this question is suggested in segments by four renowned directors: Manoel de Oliveira ("The Conqueror"),...
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1960
2013
A home movie recorded on Super 8mm as a travel diary, revisiting the trip that the architect made in 1960 through the architecture and Fernando Távora’s Diário de Bordo.
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To the Wolf of Madragoa
2013
A poet known to be a turbulent character, António Lobo de Carvalho was an 18th-century inhabitant of Guimarães. He wrote satirical poems filled with carcasses and sex, which led to him having to flee town years later. Pedro Bastos portrays him with glorious lashings of color, organ music and as...
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O Fantasma do Novais
2012
In modern day Guimarães, Ana tries to finish a research paper on Joaquim Novais Teixeira, a proud citizen of Guimarães who disappeared in Paris in 1972. She doesn’t have enough time or strength to edit hours of interviews about him, so she asks Sofia and Jacinto – whose biggest achievement is...
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Wounded Table
2012
This stage show is a film-play on Frida Khalo and on a trip taken by a group of Mexican actors to Portugal. In this illusion between film and theatre, we are confronted with the reality European eyes use to see other continents. A fiction about fiction.
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The Scoundrel
2012
There are two ways of seeing The Scoundrel: one, as the story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town. Another, as the lost film of Conrad Wilhelm Meyersick, a German...
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Redemption
2013
On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real...
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What Now? Remind Me.
2013
Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and Hepatitis C for almost twenty years. The film is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all...
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Longwave
2013
April of 1974. Two Swiss radio journalists are sent to Portugal to report on Swiss aid in that country. Bob, a technician nearing retirement, accompanies them in his trusty Combi VW. But when they get there, nothing goes to plan: there are tensions between feminist Julie and Cauvin, the cunning war...
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1 St Time 16 Mm
2008
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid. Without money but with a great will to shoot, they chose a cheaper film, 16mm, and adventure themselves in a cause almost...
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The 15th Stone
2006
Three generations cross each other, beginning with Manoel de Oliveira, the filmmaker ever present throughout the 20th century. He was the cradle of cinema itself ˆ each one of his films surprises and at the same time re-affirms, with no compromise, his cinematographic concept. Then, João Bénard...
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The Hips of J. W.
1997
Two actors playing the part of God and Lucifer in the play ‘Inferno’, by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, eventually find themselves competing in real life also. João de Deus, the director, finds Henrique, a double of the actor that played the character of God, asleep in a boat that...
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The Bomb
2001
Viagra has brought ruin to Pedro and Miguel who were in business selling aphrodisiacal lamps from door to door. According to Pedro and Miguel, when the lamps were on, even if on the ceiling, they would assist couples with sexual problems. But their story was no longer going down too well and the...
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Blind Mans’s Bluff
1994
Based on the play by the same name by Prista Monteiro, the story provides an extremely vivid description of a world of outcasts, all around, in the miserable life of a blind man begging for alms at the door of his house in Lisbon. All the money he gets is kept in a box, and the box was once stolen....
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The Letter
1999
Adapted from the novel, La Princesse, by Madame de la Fayette, published in the seventeenth century, bringing the story up-to-date and into the twentieth century. Mademoiselle de Chartres suffers her first disillusion in love and agrees to marry Jacques de Clèves, a well-known doctor, although she...
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The Sword and the Rose
2010
Manuel abandons the routines of his life in Lisbon and boards a 15th century Portuguese caravel under pirate law. A betrayal onboard triggers a series of terrible events that Manuel overcome while keeping his moral principles intact.
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The Dead Girls Feast
2008
The Dead Girl`s Feast narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of the ones who...