João Lagarto

Maria

Mariana Marques

Joana Campelo, João Lagarto

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of traditions and taboos she tries to deal with her love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice.

One Foot in the Algarve

Susan Belbin

Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.

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.

Terra Estrangeira

Daniela Thomas, Walter Salles

Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.

The End of the World

João Mário Grilo

José Viana, Adelaide João

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Imagine

Andrzej Jakimowski

Alexandra Maria Lara, Edward Hogg

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

O Ego de Egas

José Carlos Santos

João Lagarto, Ana Nave

Egas Moniz biography, the only portuguese Nobel Prize in Medicine

Capitães de Abril

Maria de Medeiros

Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

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.

Cavaleiros De Água Doce

Tiago Guedes

Nuno Simões, João Cabral

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.

Querida Mãe

José Sacramento

Glicínia Quartin, Ana Bola

The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.

Para Cá do Marão

José Mazeda

João Lagarto, Vítor Norte

A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.

Anjo Caído

Jorge Ferreira da Costa

Vítor Norte, Fátima Belo

O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra

Jorge Paixão da Costa

Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

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.

Havanera 1820

Antoni Verdaguer

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Fernando Guillén Cuervo

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.