CINERAMA by Inês Oliveira
- Festival Premier Plans d’Anger 2010 – Official Selection – Out of Competition – Features Films
- São Paulo International Film Festival 2009 – Official Selection – Competition New Directors
Synopsis:
Humberto hanged himself.
Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair.
Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
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TWIST OF FATE by Fernando Lopes
- São Paulo International Film Festival 2009 - Official Selection – International Perspective
- Estoril Film Festival - Official Selection - Out of Competition
Synopsis:
At 55 years of age, Carlos is a famous journalist. His wife, Ada, is the complete opposite of her husband: she is a woman with an active social life; and is happy and seductive. One day Carlos accidentally reads a text message on Ada’s cellular phone. His world is changed before his very eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of a friend, he discovers her universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery…
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NOISE by Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra
- Cartagena International Film Festival – In Competition – Award for Best Film & Best Actor
- Guadalajara International Film Festival - Europa Tendenvies – In Competition
- Ciputti Award for Best Film - Turin International Film Festival
- Official Selection – Zabaltegi - New Directors - In Competition - San Sebastian Film Festival
- Official Selection - New Directors - In Competition - São Paulo International Film Festival
- European Film Festival Segóvia, Spain - Muestra de Cine Europeo - Official Selection - 2009
Synopsis:
Paulo looses his job after denouncing an accident at the construction site where he works. His relationship with his wife is getting worse. Bela, Paulo’s sister, lives with their father that suffers from post-war syndrome. She is a nurse and the only comfort for a terminal patient.
Modern families barely surviving the destiny that has entangle them. Some in defiance fight back; others let themselves go and give up…
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DOOMED LOVE by Mário Barroso
- Candidate for the 82nd Academy Awards - Best Foreign Language Film – Portugal
- Official Selection – In competition – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Internationa Film Festival
- International Selection - Buenos Aires Independent International Film Festival - BAFICI
- Official Selection - In Competition - International Film Festival Locarno
- Official Selection - New Directors - In Competition - São Paulo International Film Festival
- Cinema Mundi, Brno CZ - Main Section, Western Europe - 2009
Synopsis:
This could be the story about the encounter between Simão and Teresa. Simão is a teenager almost like a child, loner, inflexible, narcissistic, destructive and suicidal that attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light.
But does Teresa exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for Doomed Love.
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THE OTHER SIDE by Luis Filipe Rocha
- Best Actor for the two leading actors - Montreal World Film Festival
- Best Jury Award & Best Actress - Guadalajara International Film Festival
- Yong Jury Award for Best Film - Du Grain à Demoudre Film Festival
- Official Selection - In Competition - Seville European Film Festival
- Official Selection - Out of Competition - Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival - World Cinema
- São paulo International Film Festival - International Perspective
- San Luis Cine Film Festival Argentina - Una Mirada al Mundo
- International Film Festival of India - World Cinema
- Ciné Bocage Festival Jean Carmet, France - Carte Blanche à Ao Norte 2009
- Ciclo Rosa, Colombia 2009
- Festival des Images aux Mots, France 2010
Synopsis:
A Transvestite, who has lost his will for life, is confronted with the joy of living of an adolescent with Down’s syndrome.
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POISON HEALS by Raquel Freire
- Autores Awards ( SPA and RTP) 2010 – Best actress for Margarida Carvalho
- New Directors Competition - São Paulo International Film Festival
Synopsis:
When you loose everything you can loose, what makes you go on? Your worst? Your best?
What can you do to survive the most terrible pain? You love with your guts out What can you do for love? How do you survive a broken heart? Have you ever died from love? It's impossible to live without love
There's a Port where we die from Love There's a club where everything is allowed. Empress
Come.
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MISBEGOTTEN by João Canijo
- Official Selection Horizonti – In Competition - Venice International Film Festival 2007
- UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, UGC Ciné Cité 27 – A European Film Showcase
- Official Selection - International Perspective – São Paulo International Film Festival 2007
- Official Selection - International Competition - Riga International Film Forum "Arsenals"
- Portuguese Films -Budapest Cinema Museum 2008
- International Film Festival of India 2008
Synopsis:
Lúcia is a cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled.
She wears mourning in remembrance of her mother’s crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure there’s no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brother’s return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her father’s blood.
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WOLVES by José Nascimento
- In Competition - Golden Globes SIC 2007
- Nomination for best actress – Catarina Wallenstein – Golden Globes Portugal 2009
- Official Selection – In Competition – Golden Colon- Huelva Film Festival 2007
- Official Selection – Out of Competition - European Film Festival 2007
Synopsis:
Shots are heard… Joaquim rushes out of his brother’s house.
His niece Vanessa runs after him and begs him to let her go with him.
A murder has been committed.
Days and nights pass, they are constantly on the run.
They sleep rough, in abandoned houses and farmyards.
They love each other.
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THE GOLDEN HELMET by Jorge Cramez
- Official Selection – International Competition - Locarno International Film Festival 2007
- Official Selection - European Film Weeks in Morocco 2007
- International Film Festival of India 2008
Synopsis:
Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida, Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite or, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do?
They can just ride, they can get away with it even if it’s all messed up. Love is to be lived.
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FROM NOW ON by Catarina Ruivo
- Best Movie - Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2007
- Best Movie - Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português 2008
- Official Selection - In Competition - Istambul International Meeting of Cinema & History Film Festival 2007
Synopsis:
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
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A RICH WIDOW IS NOT LONG SINGLE by José Fonseca e Costa
- Fantasporto Film Festival, Oporto Portugal 2009
- Invitation - "Romance in Can" Film Festival Miami, E.U.A. 2008
- In Competition - Golden Globes Portugal 2007
- Official Selection – In Competition - CinePort – Festival de Cinema de Países de Língua Portuguesa 2007 (Brasil)
- Official Opening Film– Tribute to José Fonseca e Costa – Funchal International Film Festival 2007 (Portugal)
Synopsis:
Ana Catarina, a young aristocratic lady, returns to Portugal where she was promised to marry D. Antonio. Unexpectedly, a few months later, Lady Ana Catarina looses her husband and her father, inheriting consequently everything. To a wealthy heiress there is no shortage of suitors. Torn between true love and fortune, Lady Ana Catarina marries and becomes widow over and over…
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BODY RICE by Hugo Vieira da Silva
- International Competition - Special Mention - Locarno International Film Festival 2006
- Best Director - Buenos Aires Film Festival 2007
- Best Fiction Director - Mexico City Film Festival 2007
- Best Cinematography, Best Sound - XVII Cine Ceará, Festival Ibero Americano de Cinema 2007 (Brasil)
- Award New Director – Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português 2007 (Portugal)
- Official Selection – International Competition - Locarno International Film Festival 2006
- Official Selection – In Competition - Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival 2007
- Offical Selection – In Competition - International Film Festival of Las Plmas de Gran Canaria 2007
- Hong Kong Film Festival 2007
- Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires 2007
- Brussels European Film Festival 2007
- Official Selection – Ventanas - MICEC - Mostra Internacional de Cinema Contemporani (Barcelona,Spain)
- Ciclo de Cinema Europeu Contemporâneo, 2007 (Coruna, Spain)
- Official Selection - New Horizons International Competition - Era New Horizons Film Festival 2007 (Poland)
- Official Selection – In Competition European Cinema - Crossing Europe Film Festival 2007 (Austria)
- Eurocine 27 – 2007 ( Brussels, Belgium)
- Official Selection – In Competition - Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português 2007 (Portugal)
- International Film Festival of Kerala 2006 (India)
- Ljubljana International Film Festival 2006
- Bangkok International Film Festival 2006
- Leeds Film Festival 2007
- Rotterdam Film Festival 2007
- Festival Internacional de Cinema Jovem de Valência 2007
- Project “Cultural Diversity” – Algarve International Film Festival 2007 ( Portugal)
Synopsis:
Since 1980 German institutions have been sending teenagers to south of Portugal integrated in several experimental projects of social re-education. Katrin comes to Alentejo within this context. She does not establish a relationship with the her environment, a situation heightened by harshness of the landscape and the void of a socially desertified region.
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TRANSE by Teresa Villaverde
- Special Jury Award and Award for Best Cinematography - European Cinema Festival of Lecce 2007 (Italy)
- Best Film - Eurimages programme -Serbian Film Festival 2007 (Serbia)
- Best Film Award 2007 - Caminhos do Cinema Português (Portugal)
- Best Actress and Best Cinematography - CinePort-Festival de Cinema de Países de Língua Portuguesa 2007 (Brasil)
- Official Selection – In Competition – Golden Camera – Cannes 2006
- Official Selection – International Perspective – São Paulo International Film Festival 2006
- Official Selection - Contemporary World Cinema - Toronto International Film Festival 2006
- Official Selection – Seven Changes - Sitges- International Film Festival of Catalonia 2006 (Spain)
- Europa_Europa - Seville European Film Festival 2006
- Regards D'aujourd'hui - Première Mondiale - Cinema Tout Ecran 2006 (Switzerland)
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007
- Official Selection – Out of Competition – International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2007 (Spain)
- Guadalajara International Film Festival 2007 (Mexico)
- European Panorama - Crossing Europe Film Festival 2007 (Austria)
- Official Selection - Ventanas - MICEC-Mostra Internacional de Cinema Contemporani 2007 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Women Director’s Week Cinema 2007 (Pamplona, Spain)
- Official Selection – Panorama Feature - Durban International Film Festival 2007 (South Africa)
- Festival de Inverno de Petrópolis 2007 (Brasil)
- Eurocine 27 - 2007 ( Brussels, Belgium)
Synopsis:
This is the stroy os Sónia, a young woman, who decides to leave friends and family in Saint Petersburg, without looking Back. A woman who will experience the illusion of a new life and the hell of those whom life seems to have nothing to offer. Sonia will endure all the misery and degradation that the trafficking and exploitation of the weakest provokes.
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98 OCTANE by Fernando Lopes
- Torino International Film Festival 2006
- MICEC - Mostra Internacional de Cinema Contemporani 2007 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Official Selection – In Competition - Festival CinePort 2007 (Brasil)
Synopsis:
A highway road movie. A man drifts and finds a girl in a gas station. They drive off together and start an adventure… Will they overcome their loneliness and discover love or will they just get even more lost.
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BAD BLOOD by Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra
- Shooting Star 2007: Afonso Pimentel – Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival
- Award for Best Film and Coimbra Cidade Award 2006 – Caminhos do Cinema Português (Portugal)
- Berlinale -Berlin International Film Festival - 2007 (Germany)
- Torino International Film Festival 2006
- Official Selection – International Competition – Fantasporto Oporto International Film Festival (Portugal)
- Official Selection - Fantasia Film Festival 2006 (Montreal, Canada)
- Fantasy Film Festival 2006 (Germany)
- Official Selection - In Competition - Fantastic Features – Sitges – International Film Festival of Catalonia 2006 (Spain)
- Official Selection - In Competition – Cinénygma - Luxembourg International Film Festival 2006
- Pusan International Film Festival 2006 (South Korea)
- Main Programme - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2007 (Stonia)
- Official Selection - In Competition for Best Film - CinePort-Festival de Cinema de Países de Língua Portuguesa 2007 (Brasil)
- Transilvania International Film Festival 2007 (Romania)
- Eurocine 27 - 2007 (Brussels, Belgium)
- Filmfest Hamburg – 2006
- Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival - 2006
- MICEC – Mostra Internacional de Cinema Europeu Contemporani 2007 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Official Selection – In Competition – Caminhos do Cinema Português 2006 ( Portugal)
Synopsis:
A suspense thriller about a family who inherits a house in a small countryside village.
With the house, people say, they inherit also a curse…
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THE FATALIST by João Botelho
- Official Selection – In Competition – Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival 2005
- Official Selection – São Paulo International Film Festival 2005
- Official Selection - Seville European Film Festival 2005
- American Film Institute - Showcase of European Cinema, Washington 2005
- Official Selection - Contemporary World Cinema - Toronto International Film Festival 2005
Synopsis:
Everything good or bad that happens to us "down here" is written "up there". This is the phrase most loved by Tiago, a chauffeur by profession, in order to justify his surprising action when he drives his boss through a strange Portugal in the delirious and endless story of his love-affairs.
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