Marta Pessoa

Quem Vai à Guerra

Marta Pessoa

50 years after its beginning, it's still a delicate and hermetic subject today, based on an exclusively male speech, as if veterans were war's only owners and victims. When a country is at war though, is there anybody left out? Warriors is a generation's war movie, told by those who were left behind to wait, those who chose to be there and those who ran to rescue the soldiers from the battle's front lines. A female insight on war.

Lisboa Domiciliária

Marta Pessoa

Documentary about the old people living in the highest floors of old buildings with no lifts, in Lisbon.

Manual do Sentimento Doméstico

Marta Pessoa

Woman seeks house to domesticate. Wants sensitive, versatile space, any age, with sense of humour. Offers availability of feelings. Has references. Schedule to be arranged.

O Medo à Espreita

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Margarida Tengarrinha, Helena Pato

"The Lurking Fear" interviews Portuguese citizens whose lives where hit by the torture of its fascist political police.

Donzela Guerreira

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Anabela Brígida, Dina Félix Costa

Emilia is a writer, living in Lisbon in the year 1959. She is the “Damsel Warrior”, a fictional woman composed from the literary universes of Maria Judite de Carvalho and Irene Lisboa, writers of the city and the characters that inhabit it.

Bolor Negro

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Álvaro Correia, Dina Félix Costa

Dia de Feira

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Anabela Brígida, Paula Só

Dawn is breaking into day. Fair day. As in every year. But this is a year of mourning. "It doesn't look right!" Vera says to her sister. And her mother-in-law looks at her and remembers the dead son. Remembrance is a silence between the two of them. Children's voices come from outside. Lucia wants to go to the fair with her uncle and cousin. "You promised!" claims the daughter. Vera consents in letting her go. Lucia waves her hand as the tractor drives away. Chance, once again. An accident. Death, always so close, so alive.