Reynard the fox symbolizes endless obsession. Marta seeks her inner essence, balancing between freedom and self-impriso…
A Portuguese filmmaker explores Ethiopia's ancient capital, uncovering the vibrant Timkat ritual and its powerful expre…
European personalities reflect on identity, goals, and socio-economic challenges across cities like Brussels, Copenhage…
Exploring individuality in modern society, this insightful documentary dissects the tension between free will and inter…
In a fading mountain village, a solitary man grapples with his fate, caught between the misty wilderness and the dark c…
A father reminisces about cherished times with his ill, estranged daughter, hoping for a reconciliation.
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
As the Taliban seizes Kabul, the Afghan Women’s Soccer team makes a daring escape in the night, trading their cleats fo…
This bold documentary profiles the life of a trailblazing woman whose journey through the 20th century is fueled by her…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
A young Chinese director navigates his sexual identity in Europe, confronting cultural expectations and self-expression…
This Documentary is a contemplative exploration of the "Camino de Santiago," focusing on the "albergue" - a hostel that…
Five hopeful migrants, trapped in Ceuta, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, grapple with mounting anxiety as they stand just…
Leticia, a fearless 15-year-old country girl from Portugal, brandishes a rifle with uncanny ease. The filmmaker capture…
In a village divided, a dedicated caretaker seeks to rejuvenate an abandoned Catholic seminary, once a vibrant center o…
In the wake of a crippling stroke, a tenacious jazz legend fights to regain his drumming prowess, mentor one final prot…
The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
A contemplative and beautiful portrait of Berlenga Grande, a Portuguese island as paradisiacal as it is mystical.
The film is a delicate gaze at Mina de São Domingos, a desolate village in Portugal whose past mining economy barely br…
Joana is an energetic and slightly rebellious Portuguese teenager. She is also the young mother of a girl whose father …
The inhabitants of this small rural village in the north of Portugal may have emigrated to another place, but here they…
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