Acácio de Almeida Filmes

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

The stories of Nasreddin carry out a reversal of 'point of view' which shatter our established way of seeing things, people, the world and their...

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most...

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room....

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet...

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more...

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

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...

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want...

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young...

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...