Movies

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and...

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he...

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...

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

The plan of issues, since 1962, an alive and continuous legacy of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual...

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

Based on a work by Fernando Pessoa.

A festive day in the Timorense community stranded in the Jamor Valley. A partisan who came from Timor and his story. A look at an abandoned people.

Não Me Cortes O Cabelo Que Meu Pai Me Penteou is a collage of two traditional tales present in the anthology of Traditional Portuguese Tales...

The question of abortion and other issues related to the lives of Portuguese women.