Clara Nogueira

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.

Por um fio

Miguel Matias Alves

Filomena Gigante, Clara Nogueira

A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path.

Anxiety

Manoel de Oliveira

Luís Miguel Cintra, José Pinto

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.

Sefarad

Luís Ismael

Rodrigo Santos, Pedro Galiza

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.

Fora de Jogo

José Freitas

João Cravo Cardoso, Clara Nogueira

After being discouraged by his aunt, Leo contradicts her expectations and tries to fight for a place in the local football team trials.

Surdina

Rodrigo Areias

António Durães, Ângela Marques

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.

O dia em que as cartas pararam

Cláudia Clemente

Ana Bustorff, Ágata Pinho