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- The passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.
- Mirene and André are a straight couple struggling with infertility. Carl and Vicente are a gay couple undergoing an experimental procedure to have a child. An exploration of gender, reproduction, normativity and the notion of family.
- Super Natural is a film that talks and listens, that interferes and seeks out those who are beholding it. Its desire is to abandon the screen, to take a look at those who look at it, and listen to them, but also to be smelled and seen beyond what is being seen. Super Natural is a transcendent experience occurring outside of the body, of all bodies, but particularly of one's own. It is like a super-power and, in this movement, it focuses on the image, a sensitive existence one intends to speak with. That is why this film aspires, in a speculative gesture, to activate an effect, a hypothetical relaxation, a sensory experience for those who are off the screen as if they were on it.
- Cláudia is a Portuguese immigrant who is dealing with a terrorizing boss, her rejecting daughter and the strong mountain wind, as she cleans sophisticated Airbnb's in the Swiss Alps.
- Márcia is a social media pro and knows all the best poses and filters for perfect selfies. Her son, Flávio, helps her to take photos of herself. This is how she manages to hook up with famous rapper Da Reel Chullz on Instagram.
- This is the story of a tall 10-year-old girl. She is working on a school project that aims to explain how the world works to her class. She is faced with difficult social and political questions that even adults struggle to answer.
- A young man searches for magic mushrooms in Lisbon, before distributing them with carrier pigeons to locals afflicted by depression.
- 1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year.
- A child is spending the holidays with their family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a pond. Attracted to it, the child senses a presence, someone familiar yet still unknown.
- Lisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.
- A filmmaker travels 2000km north, where he meets some compatriots forced to leave the country. In these encounters, the love for cars is an incitement to discuss identity and community, dissolving boundaries between society and territory.
- In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.
- Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with a robot that also happens to be a stand-up comedian. This strange story mixes the anthropology of humor, indigenous communities, and artificial intelligence.
- Agency worker Anna takes her dog for a morning walk before doing her shopping. Searching through the discounted items, she wanders through the supermarket trying to find the most affordable necessities. As her groceries edge toward the checkout, her agency calls: she has lost her shift. What will she do? The Shift aims to capture the vulnerable condition of a temporary worker and reveal the immediate consequences of the dangerously short and ever-present distance separating employment and poverty, security and tumult.
- The construction of a wall to keep women out, as well as the legacy of those same women whose memories have made the walls to crumble.
- Cosmos, dolphins, loneliness and techno. Butterflies, lovers and raves. We close our eyes, and travel the entire universe in a single night.
- A melancholic film - the archaeological investigation of the state of mind of our present.
- "Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another", narrates the voiceover. "All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn't invited to the celebration - the frog. In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide." Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed. In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday. Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position. As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative. Thereby transforming "once upon a time" into "there is". "Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed", explains a voice off-camera.
- The inhabitants of Mangueira tensely await for the results of a samba competition.
- Maria João lives isolated with her father. Fearing she will catch the disease carried by the wind that killed her mother, the father does not allow her to leave the house. In exchange, he narrates stories of adventure to her. One night, an ex-soldier turned wanderer of peace, knocks on their door, in search of the woman he left behind before setting off to war, unaware that she is already gone.
- Duarte, a blind man in his 50's, starts to look for his Cape Verdean friend, Leandro, who mysteriously disappeared. Despite Lisbon's summer heat, Duarte walks miles in his neighbourhood but no one seems to have seen him, nor remembers him. His quest will eventually lead him to the heart of the night and reveal his secret.
- Self Destructive Boys is a direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual flexibility. This film is built on an edge: the ambiguity of human relationships. Boys will always be boys.
- Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa meet in a movie theater.
- Dialogue of Shadows uses the exhibition "Pedro Costa: Company" as its raw material, and as a starting point to build a mosaic, sparking a dialogue between several figures from filmmaker Pedro Costa's creative imagination.
- Manel idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau. On the way back he invades a film set where a group of young women count among the film crew. One of them is Rita.
- It's summer in the Portuguese countryside, where the local festivities take place. Chico is haunted by a hate crime committed in his village against a boy who was secretly close to him. Throughout this journey, Chico, pressured by his friends, tries both to follow their social standards and hide his fears and desires.
- Scientists breeding genetically modified mosquitos to stop epidemy in Brasil. In paralel non traditional sexual relations taking place.
- "When We Dead Awaken" is an experimental fabulation about the Fairies' Tree. This tree is mentioned several times in Joan of Arc's trial. Imagining it multiplied in space and time, this film ritualizes this historical element, reappropriating it and turning it into a symbol of gender dissidents prosecuted by the Inquisition.
- An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift.Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira's cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematographic inventions.
- At dawn a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well.
- "Luminous Shadow" is born of an artistic residency process developed in proximity with the collection and the curatorial prism of the International Arts Center José de Guimarães.
- In the end of the 19th century the peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise of an Agrarian Reform.
- "A Dança do Cipreste" (The Cypress Dance) springs from our interest in the immanent transformations of the body driven by dreams and desire, love and death, in their lucid and ghostly variants. Embracing the influence of imagination in the encounter with nature, it brings to light relationships of continuity and discontinuity with other beings and elements, as it follows the movements of a family circle. Mariana appears to us in her solitude, a woman and painter, at the height of her search for pleasure and desire, committed to artistic representations and her family life. Witty figures of strangeness, eroticism and violence emerge. Mariana, Henrique, Artur and Rafael, together or individually, find themselves in mutual projections and symbiotic relationships, in the days spent outdoors and in imaginary places. A sensorial portrait, which combines simple relationships of contact and affection, exploratory moments in nature and creations of the spirit.
- Pedro occupies a bankrupt shopping center, where he lives haunted by his lack of future. The temporary stay of a new girl in the town is going to change his condition.
- The summer heat shimmers. A group of friends drive into the woods. Bodies are packed into the car, four in the back and two in the front. In the woods they come across a snake. The snake coils itself around the boy's leg. A girl holds it in her hands. Two young men are eating a peach. They kiss. After the kiss, the day is over.
- In an abandoned shopping center, Luis sees his best friend being assaulted. Incapable of facing it he runs away from the adolescent violence that haunts him while struggling against himself.