Portuguese Competition

All the clocks at my grandparents’ house have stopped.

Mértola, the Guadiana River, a place with old water mills where flour for bread was ground. A place where birds live and people relax. Fishing…

One sunny afternoon in Lisbon, Manel leaves home in search of work. He comes across an old church and is reminded of his late friend,…

Weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of a couple of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems and songs, As Estações…

The man of the future will learn to shed the skin of guilt and rewrite himself. Nature has endowed him with the magic of dissatisfaction…

An orphan of the country where he was born, an orphan of the Portuguese state. Imprisoned for half of his life, yet always free. Bruno…

On a winter night in Berlin, Three of Cups explores love, identity and change among three friends—a non-binary artist, a trans woman, and a queer…

Gil, aged 50, has always wanted to be a singer. She moved to São Paulo with her wife at the age of 20 in order…

News of a fatal illness takes Irma to Greece, the land of clarity, where she embarks on a journey dictated by the god Apollo and…

Mozambique. Benjamin tries to save money to organise his son’s birthday party. Filimone visits his family between war missions. Eulália has just given birth to…

An electrifying journey into the heart of 1970s counterculture, built around never-before-seen footage from the Nova Convention. This three-day event in New York City celebrated…