Manuel Mozos

Aldina Duarte: Princesa Prometida

Manuel Mozos

A portrait of the unique personality of Aldina Duarte, a girlish lady, who sings the “fado” out of conviction and love. The film profiles her, unveiling her personality, travelling with her on a journey across her city, Lisbon, visiting the places that she most loves and knows so well, exposing herself as a free and open, generous and lively, innocent but wise woman, with the straightforwardness and a certain spice full of prudishness that are so identifying to Aldina Duarte.

Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa

Manuel Mozos

João Bénard da Costa

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of the documentary and the sights and sounds clips from some movies is established. Despite the difficulties, the films continue to exist and to resist. Is it worth it? What would happen if they disappeared? Each viewer must find their answer. This film aims to be an approach to Portuguese cinema in its hundred years of existence, opening, hopefully, ways for their dissemination and making light for its knowledge.

Crescei e Multiplicai-vos

Manuel Mozos

Fernando Luís, Carla Chambel

Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos

Vasco Bação

Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, Manuel Mozos

In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte).

A Noite do Golpe de Estado

Ginette Lavigne

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Manuel Mozos

The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that would topple the Portuguese government and start a democratic regime in Portugal - since another military coup, May 28, 1926, installed a one-party dictatorship there. The scenes in the claustrophobic operation room are recreated, with him alone and a few voices.

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

Manuel Mozos

Alberto Seixas Santos, António da Cunha Telles

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.

Um Filme Português

Levi Martins, Vítor Alves

Manuel Mozos, Rita Azevedo Gomes

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

João Bénard da Costa: Outros Amarão as Coisas Que Eu Amei

Manuel Mozos

João Bénard da Costa, João Pedro Bénard

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.

As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado

Miguel Gomes

Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad ! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Como Fernando Pessoa Salvou Portugal

Eugène Green

Carloto Cotta, Manuel Mozos

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.

Bruno Aleixo's Film

João Moreira, Pedro Santo

Gonçalo Waddington, Rogério Samora

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.

Xavier

Manuel Mozos

Pedro Hestnes, Cristina Carvalhal

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo

Manuel Mozos

Clara Ferreira Alves, António Lobo Antunes

A documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.

Ruínas

Manuel Mozos

Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.

Sophia, na primeira pessoa

Manuel Mozos, Maria Andresen de Sousa Tavares

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Miguel Sousa Tavares

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using parts of her prose and poetry always with first-person testimonies; from Porto to Lisbon, from Granja to Lagos, from the Atlantic Sea to the Mediterranean, from Greece to 25 April: the passions and disappointments of a life and work dedicated to the search for the real, freedom and justice.

A Religiosa Portuguesa

Eugène Green

Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.