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- Documentary "For Love of the Piano," dedicated to the life and work of the pianist Sequeira Costa. In concert with a dedicated international career began when he won the Grand Prix of the City of Paris Marguerite Long in 1951, Sequeira Costa is a renowned piano teacher and chairman of the board of International Music Competition Vianna da Motta and has been for more than half a century. The documentary follows this threefold activity of the Portuguese pianist: as a performer, as a piano teacher, giving master classes and lectures at the University of Kansas in the United States - is rooted more than three decades, and as organizer and chairman of the jury latest edition of the International Piano Competition Vianna da Motta, which takes place in in Lisbon. Having left Portugal for lack of conditions for teaching the instrument at home, Sequeira Costa created the school Vianna da Motta in the U.S., where over the years has received as disciples several young pianists Portuguese - cases among others, Pedro Burmester, Miguel Henriques and Artur Pizarro. The last two also involved in the documentary, testifying to his experience with Sequeira Costa and comparing it with different approaches to interpretation piano.
- Documentary about Ricardo Chibanga (1942-2019), born in Mozambique but with an important career in bullfighting developed in Portugal. He was the first black matador in bullfighting history.
- Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, and Franco, the Spanish dictator, had parallel lives and supported each other, being the front men for two regimes which for decades coexisted in time and only disappeared after each other's death. Based on rigorous international archive researches, historian statements and testimonials of people who worked closely with the two dictators, this documentary follows the historical path of both Iberian neighbors. It was such a strong relationship that one would not live without the other.
- Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005) was at the head of the Portuguese Communist Party for more than half a century. Born in a bourgeois family, he maintains himself very close to the soviet leaders, from Stalin to Brejnev. In exile or in prison most of the time in his youth, he played a major role during the Portuguese revolution (1974/75). A talented writer and artist, he defended the hard communist line until his death. Rare archive footage reveals this enigmatic figure.