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A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power...

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These...

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira

It's Sunday, day of rest. At the river, the father fishes and drinks, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays...

Uncle Zé came from the highlands to Lisbon at an early age, and brought a particular bond with the earth and with men. In the rubble produced...

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

“Land far away” is an expression typical of Cape Verdean emigration, which reveals the distance that emigrants feel in their...