Laura Soveral

Estrada da Vida

Henrique Campos

Laura Soveral, Paulo Renato

A Tremonha de Cristal

António Campos

Rita Loureiro, Manuel Wiborg

Armando, the only grandson of an old worker of Salinas de Aveiro, studies music in France and any news from him is scarce. The grandfather Abilio then decides to send him a letter announcing his death and Armando rushes to return.

Amor Cego

Paulo Filipe Monteiro

Sinde Filipe, Lourdes Norberto

Lourdes

Lodovico Gasparini

Alessandro Gassman, Angèle Osinsky

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.

Vale Abraão

Manoel de Oliveira

Leonor Silveira, Luís Miguel Cintra

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a lover.

Alice

Marco Martins

Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Tabu

Miguel Gomes

Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

The Divine Comedy

Manoel de Oliveira

Maria de Medeiros, Miguel Guilherme

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.

Adeus, Pai

Luís Filipe Rocha

Afonso Pimentel, João Lagarto

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality.

Francisca

Manoel de Oliveira

Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

O Anjo da Guarda

Margarida Gil

Canto e Castro, Dalila Carmo

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.

Carlos de Oliveira: Sobre o Lado Esquerdo

Margarida Gil

Luís Miguel Cintra, Fernando Lopes

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.

Três Irmãos

Teresa Villaverde

Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

Aniversário

Mário Barroso

Carlos Vieira, Pêpê Rapazote

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.

Terra Sonâmbula

Teresa Prata

Ernesto Lemos Macuacua, Aladino Jasse

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.

Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites

José Fonseca e Costa

Paulo Pires, Vítor Norte

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.