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- 2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.
- In 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
- In 2013 the military police of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.
- Ana was born in São Miguel, an island ruled by religion and traditions. In between Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, and her friend Cloé from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey filled with new desires. Wolf and Dog is the enchanting ode to the island's queer community where the twilight glow crosses the immense Atlantic Ocean.
- Rosa is a successful designer living in a generic big city. After the unexpected death of her grandfather, she realizes she's not been in a place where she felt connected or loved since she left her homeland.
- Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery while it slowly devours them.
- A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.
- A historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.
- Follows the story of a woman in her forties who becomes friend with an ex colonel and riding instructor with a shady past.
- The afternoon Jorge asks Mariana over for a weekend at his house in Leiria, she starts to see him in a whole new light. Unsure of her friend's intentions, Mariana accepts his unexpected and baffling invitation.
- A day at the beach, just before the summer holidays. A recently arrived girl who causes some curiosity. A whisper. A disruption - power goes out, a general blackout - maybe it was an accident, maybe it's only a pretext for a night together.
- One night, a group of workers discover their factory is being dismantled by the same administration that runs it. Quickly, the labourers organize themselves in order to occupy the plant.
- A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.
- Salome picks up a summer job in the garbage dump of a village. From unexpected encounters to shared sorrows, comes the promise of a new life.
- Like a letter sent to a time to come, we dive into the past and follow the experience of a young artist, Margarida Tengarrinha, who goes clandestine in Portugal and becomes a document forger for political militancy reasons.
- A chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Rastafarian Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an adventurer whom he doesn't know. But things never go as planned in life - and particularly in this charming search for Djon's identity.
- 1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year.
- A young woman suddenly disappears, leaving her husband and son in disarray.
- It follows 40-year-old Helena, who, after the death of her mother, has time for herself. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, and gets drunk.
- Two twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.
- Angela and Jair travel the volcanic coast beaten by the ocean in search of the small fry that will ensure their survival in a fishing village. They must coexist with fans of big- game fishing , who have come to hunt down blue marlin. Through finely composed shots, Pierre-François Sauter shows the effects of international tourism above ground in Cape Verde.
- A dystopian reflection on the current Brazilian political climate since the dismissal of President Rousseff, through two renegade characters waiting for redemption in the city of Brazilia.
- Joaquim is at the end of his working life. According to a deal made with his employer, he will be able to retire after a brief period of unemployment.
- A musical journey through the suburbs of Lisbon. Musicians with identity struggles, who are not always given recognition. People from different generations and backgrounds, young and old.
- After committing a crime, Henrique, a man in his thirties, hides in the forest.
- Portraiture and history, testimony and geography cohere to absorbing effect in Luísa Homem's interview-based micro-epic. The film's titular subject, a French geographer and adventurer born in 1925, recounts her own life, covering her student years during World War II, her subsequent field research in Africa and Portugal, her loves, her family, her feminism, and her reflections on modernity. Homem strikingly weaves together interviews, archival photos, and home movies to arrive at a complex and immersive portrait of a modern woman perennially fascinated by the world around her and consumed by an insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- Timkat is a celebration to commemorate the baptism of Christ in the river Jordan in order to save all mankind. The ones who are not baptized every year will not be able to reach the kingdom of heaven.
- CAMPO presents a reflection on the mundane and the transcendental in Europe's largest military base where troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the piano for the wild deer lurking in the dark.
- An aviation field in an unknown suburb. The lake underneath the city burns the streets.
- Portuguese hybrid between fiction and documentary, youth and adulthood, and a young couple's widely different views of a dark future. Mariana is a young woman in her 20s who has moved from her parents' home in the northern part of crisis-ridden Portugal to Lisbon, to live with her boyfriend Alex. But now he is on his way to New York to pursue his ambitions as an actor. The two of them differ quite dramatically in their approach to the country's crisis and bleak prospects when they meet again in her home town, where a local myth talks about how crossing the river of oblivion will allow you to put the past behind you. Mariana and Alex must make their own choices. Lisbon, which is gradually recognized as a new Berlin, and the desolate landscapes in the north of the country are the locations where an elegant encounter takes place between a real social reality, the couple's own experiences and a cinematic vision, which is not limited by documentary dogma. 'A Girl of Her Age' is Márcio Laranjeira's debut and in its own words a 'documentary novel', in which Laranjeira demonstrates a special sense of a place's atmosphere and character, and for the underlying social and political currents.
- Marta takes care of her newborn daughter and is visited daily by friends and family in her Lisbon apartment. In the intimacy of this home, they exchange tales of their lives.
- The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return 'to the curve where man got lost' in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.
- Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, reynard (fox) is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of a free spirit that might end in her own enclosure.
- Holy Family is a dark comedy about a family of 5 siblings, a single mom and a football fanatic grandma who all live in a small flat in the outskirts of Lisbon. Everything comes to a climax on the day Benfica's mascot (the famous eagle 'Victoria') disappears from the stadium and Benfica loses the match.
- A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman share a candid and twisted relationship with a deadline.
- End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão, "BDA".
- Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
- Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.