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- Is the girl real or a hallucination?
- "Echoes of the Red One" shows the activities of the resistance to the Estado Novo (Portuguese fascist regime) in the city Vila Franca de Xira, from the early 30's to 1974. Through the eyes of several witnesses that lived those dictatorship years, the film highlights the different initiatives and events that happened on those years on a political, social and cultural level, showing actions in the collectivities, the gathering in the taverns, the church's role and also some important events like the 1967 floods or the 1969 elections.
- Through the narrow city streets, where only the sound of the night penetrate the empty alleys, comes from the darkness Morfeu, a seller of dreams. The lives of Pedro, Gabriel and João are crossed throughout the story with this eccentric being, which promises to sell them a dream in exchange for a single coin. This brief encounter will forever change the life of the three.
- Luísa is a depressed teenager: her relationship with her parents is complicated, she is unhappy at school and has no faith in mankind. The only person who seems to understand her anguish is Filipe, a boy who she only met online. After being caught smoking at school, the strain on her relationship with her parents becomes unbearable. Luísa has had enough and decides to run away with Filipe. These are the last days of a life she does not want; her goodbye will be mad and gruesome. But is Filipe who he seems to be?
- A man closes the door of his house and feels an unexpected dread. After a brief period of recovery, the man seeks help to face his fear and reveals to his interviewer the real reason for his fears: creatures that try to invade his home.
- Books vanish from a library. A daughter says goodbye to her mother. A writer struggles with Alzheimer's disease.
- The day they were preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve, Antonio is once again abandoned by his wife and children.
- A short film about a woman who works for a Portuguese textile company factory that produces baby clothes. It conducts a talk between her and the audience which reveals a singular perspective about the daily life in the company.
- The hands question what they can have in common with hands covered in cement, in mud, in dust. Those hands that, instead of building houses, repeat images, stretch sounds, construct films.
- António Antunes and Vasco Gargalo are two Portuguese cartoonists born in Vila Franca de Xira. In "Two Cartoonists", their work meets together. One works on a traditional manner, the other works with digital methods. In this documentary we witness both their work methods as they give their views on the art of cartoon. At the end, we visit CartoonXira that serves as a final stage for the public to see their works.
- A film crew is confronted with their biggest problem. They run out of film, and money. So in order to finish the film the directors take all his crew to the lab and coordinate everything as if it was a regular film shoot.
- Olivia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality has to do a shortfilm about Manoel de Oliveira.
- A broken family gets together for Christmas dinner when their mentally ill daughter comes home for the first time since she was institutionalized.
- The rooms in her house are reserved for moments, people and memories which trigger an inner fight when she tries to re-live them, searching for what makes her truly happy.
- A stingy boatman, who fears nothing, crosses a beautiful girl to the other bank of the river on a cold autumn nigh. What comes next will put his words and courage to the test.
- A Portuguese young couple just arrived in a city in the Portuguese countryside, short while after the man got out of prison. Both unemployed, they turn out to reveal their own nature while searching for a particular job.
- Poet Fernando Pessoa meets his alter egos and defends his death while Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis defend their ideals of life.
- The attempted escape of a boy in the labyrinths of a remote psychiatric hospital. Marco will have to overcome multiple obstacles, including the personal ghosts that disturb his senses. He wants to escape from the asylum and himself.
- Filmed in one shot, this is a simple story which depicts a moment of everyday life. How many times we await at a bus stop and in the (in)voluntary interaction with strangers, we end up having a different day than we expected. In an almost comical but realistic tone, "The bus stop" shows the (not) empathetic development between two strangers.
- Conceição escapes from the Nursing Home with the help of her grandaughter Lia. The two of them go on a trip to the coast of Algarve in order to watch a bird called Calcamar.
- Every year, the village of Cidões celebrates the transition from summer to winter. When the night comes, the devil also arrives, until a druid defeats him. In the next Halloween, of course, he comes again. But what is the devil, anyway?
- A young man with telekinetic powers lives a quiet life in his apartment. When a new roommate arrives he has to make a decision, proceed with his lonely life or try to make a friend for the first time.
- The eternal guilt, the attempt at redemption, the infinite ramifications. There is no turning back to what Marília has done.
- Movement reverberates through space. The constancy of beauty, dynamic and fluidity oppose the world's inertia; moving like waves to reach balance.
- A child shielded at birth from any contact with civilization by her parents, grows up in the duality between the nature's freedom and the repressive and strict household environment. Faced with her mother's escape from it all, forsaking her in the process, a will emerges to discover what lies beyond those known boundaries and ultimately to unveil where the river flows. "As Águas de Sua Mãe" goes thru the reality, the memory and the imagination of someone living in the threshold between the animal nature and the decay of human civilization, placing the viewer within the circle where man is influenced by its surroundings. It's a film where the Cinema itself is a habitat for characters and viewer alike.