A hamlet in northern Portugal, 50 people, four generations. A year between driving cattle and harvesting, confession and a party to celebrate the slaughtering of the animals. And: boy meets girl – cautiously poetic.
Emmy lays out Euro coins in a row: “That separates me from you, see?” There are actually more than a few coins between Emmy and André, two young adults from Alcoitão.
Surrounded by the Arcadian-looking landscape of Europe’s biggest military base on the outskirts of Lisbon, sheep and bees meet ornithologists and soldiers training for combat.
A house in Portugal, an old woman, 91 years lived within the same walls. A quiet observation in a space where time and memories have inscribed themselves.
A few years after the successful revolution in Portugal, Alberto Seixas Santos sets out on a search for its protagonists: those soldiers who...
600 film reels of insect recordings – a flea market find leads to the psychological study of a Brussels surgeon and a type of man who shares his habitat with audibly scurrying chitin carapaces.
A biography told by a deserted room. The colour nuances succeed each other like the stages of life, bathing the furniture and plants in the light of memories.
Gaps in a family and a country, the traces of a mother and the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, in grainy images and memories. A poetic picture puzzle.
In this brilliantly filmed and edited miniature the residents of a Lisbon suburb never stop talking about money and the rare opportunities to get hold of it.
A lonely, misty mountain region, a dying village, a seemingly gruff man who restlessly wanders through his house and the forest. But he won’t reveal his secret.
Penúmbria is a fictitious place by the sea. The coast is rough, the clouds hang low over the horizon. Deep sadness drips from every crevice. A dystopia.
When stags are kept in captivity the borderline between autonomy and servitude runs through every single individual animal.
Scenes that have nothing in common and yet reference each other: moments in Porto – aggressive, repentant, lewd. A current of bodies and bodies like live wires.
A psychiatric hospital in Portugal. A play is being rehearsed; an actor moves in to study the residents. Madness, normality and finally a hallucinating horse …
