Amelia’s Children

Amelia’s Children

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal...

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Diamantino

Diamantino

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.

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The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady

The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady

Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

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A Brief History of Princess X

A Brief History of Princess X

A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is in fact a bust of Napoleon's incredible great-niece,...

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Palaces of Pity

Palaces of Pity

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies...

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Ennui Ennui

Ennui Ennui

While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is...

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Freud und Friends

Freud und Friends

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

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A History of Mutual Respect

A History of Mutual Respect

When two boys leave for a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will part forever.

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Taprobana

Taprobana

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic...

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Genetics

Genetics

Two ghosts explore autobiographical fragments within the broader existential theme of genetic ancestry and its relation to racial hierarchy.

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The Artificial Humors

The Artificial Humors

Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo...

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Here in Lisbon

Here in Lisbon

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist...

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The Lamb of God

The Lamb of God

The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence in this enigmatic portrait of a tightly knit family.

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Liberdade

Liberdade

Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant...

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Bué Sabi

Bué Sabi

'Bué Sabi' (pronounced "bweh sabi") portrays the unlikely friendship of three female characters: a troubled girl of Gypsy descent who lives in one...

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The Hunchback

The Hunchback

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a...

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Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies

Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies

In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest...

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Fratelli

Fratelli

Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia...

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Ponce de León

Ponce de León

“I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon Our PONCE DE LEÓN discovered...

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Olympia I & II

Olympia I & II

This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her...

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