João Matos

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...

23 de ago. de 2024

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fir...

14 de set. de 2022

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing proj...

10 de fev. de 2017

18 de fev. de 2012

Uma noite, os trabalhadores de uma fábrica de elevadores em Portugal veem as máquinas serem colocadas em furgões e levadas. Sem conseguirem impedir...

01 de jan. de 2019

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he w...

03 de mar. de 2021

Milla, de 17 anos e Leo não muito mais que isso, fugiram para uma pequena cidade do Canal do Norte. Um amor para viver, uma vida para inventar, uma...

25 de jan. de 2018

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

16 de abr. de 2016

Teresa (Elizabete Francisca Santos) é uma jovem portuguesa que decide deixar o país para morar no Brasil. Ela vai direto para a casa de Francisca (...

09 de fev. de 2017

20 de set. de 2024

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Si...

10 de ago. de 2015

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a fam...

08 de mar. de 2023

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually c...

12 de abr. de 2023

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

29 de mar. de 2024

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão, "BDA".

10 de mai. de 2017

Na favela de Sol Nascente, na Ceilândia, a principal moeda de troca entre grupos inimigos é o petróleo. Chitara, grande gasolineira da região, tent...

08 de nov. de 2022

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave ...

03 de abr. de 2014

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

02 de dez. de 2011

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project of ...

10 de set. de 2016

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the psycholo...

22 de out. de 2019

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze...

05 de ago. de 2022

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...

01 de abr. de 2014

O Hospital Psiquiátrico Forense tem um nível de segurança média, estrutura fechada, e uma proposta de reabilitação. O serviço prestado inclui a ass...

11 de jun. de 2016

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as t...

14 de jan. de 2016

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the int...

11 de jan. de 2021

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

11 de mar. de 2022

At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure ...

17 de mai. de 2016

Uma casa está em chamas. Todas as casas. Uma viagem resulta em várias viagens e essa é sem regresso. Muitas mulheres falam. Contam suas histórias. ...

22 de set. de 2022

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man ri...

13 de jul. de 2022

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and me.

11 de jul. de 2019

26 de mai. de 2022

4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.

01 de jan. de 2015

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into a ph...

08 de jul. de 2019

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta...

12 de jul. de 2019

"Campo" é apresentado como um filme-ensaio, rodado "na maior base militar da Europa, onde os militares treinam, com todo o tipo de armas, missões q...

27 de out. de 2019

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.

01 de jan. de 2016

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyon...

25 de jan. de 2017

Somewhere in the mountains, a man lives alone in a disappearing village. Wandering through the misty nature, interpreting among the walls of his da...

31 de out. de 2019

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each ...

01 de jan. de 2017

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in...

23 de jul. de 2009

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

27 de abr. de 2012

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

02 de abr. de 2015

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity stru...

19 de jul. de 2019

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They...

19 de set. de 2020

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Alm...

05 de mai. de 2011

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She wa...

26 de jun. de 2010

Documentary on the work of Helena Almeida, a plastic artist that, since the end of the 60s, has developed a body of work in which she explores the ...

22 de out. de 2006

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica. ...

25 de ago. de 2019

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of wat...

16 de jul. de 2021

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the worl...

01 de jan. de 2011

In Hindu mythology, RAHU is the severed head of a demon responsible for swallowing the sun and causing the eclipses. It is also Alex Zhang Hungtai,...

22 de out. de 2017