The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

Impressive historical documentary by Sergei Loznitsa on the 18 August 1991 putsch in Russia, put together using hours of beautifully restored archival material.

On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films...

"Since 2011, as an author and in a frantic and committed fashion, I record music and dance expressions of various kinds all over the country..."

Having grown up first in Poland and then in Austria, Jola Wieczorek embarks on a search for the life she left behind in her old homeland. To accompany the poetic images she drafts a letter to her Polish alter ego, which remains a speculation, sometimes also a stereotype, away from the shared memories of early childhood. A dialogue with a faded mirror image.

Documentary based on anthropological research in which the striking transformation of the Western brass band is investigated in several non-Western cultures.

After the director is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming his journeys.

Story of the war-torn Southern Philippines as an endless attempt at survival and adaptation to state policies that disregard the most basic concept of home.

An insight on sensorial experiences, collective memory and sense of identity of the wool workers from Covilhã (Portugal), establishing a link with the abandoned and degraded factories that have once been a symbol of prosperity.

Created at irregular intervals, Pierre Léon’s small oeuvre oscillates between experimental home movie and theatrical mise-en-scène, found footage and documentary assemblages.

A lyrical essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders is told through a series of vignettes that explore the lives of political and economic refugees on the island of Cyprus. The film explores the themes of displacement, belonging, identity, and migration.

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreigner companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. The sand industry, primary resource for the production of concrete, had reached a dramatic level, endangering the beaches. This event caused a huge euphoria among the businessmen of Mauritania.

This documentary project was conceived in May 2012, when Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary bulletins,” which were published daily online, allowed for wide-ranging content; the feature film focused solely on the members of various opposition groups...

“To come to a new through things that are not exactly new.” Manuel Castro Caldas

A series of conservations and moments in the lives of Chinese people as they ride their trains.

The days in Lisbon are long, but the nights are longer. Anik and Nazmul are just two of the many semi-legal migrants from Bangladesh waiting for their residency applications to proceed. They're stuck: they can't leave the country to go home or anywhere else...

Climb up, let’s jump, the fields are green and the houses grey. We’re all small. It feels like the pores of my skin have become gigantic.

“João Bénard da Costa was the head of Cinemateca Portuguesa for eighteen years. I walked down his memory lane and found his love for painting, for churches, for Proust and Musil, for Italy, films, Mozart, and for his friends. But what I really wanted was to depict the contradictory man of flesh and blood, a free man.” Manuel Mozos

Luis Miguel Cintra, actor, stage director and director of Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion. This play is based upon texts by Federico García Lorca...

A portrait of Sonja, adventurer of the twentieth century, living on an island that she built by herself: Motu Maeva.

In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country's traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult.

A personal account of 50 years of Portuguese history through fiction films and documentaries.

Going in depth into her father’s photo archive and diaries about his experience during the military service at the Sahara Spanish colony in 1964, Pilar spots the lost paradise where he always would try to come back...

The film portrays two old shepherd´s tragic life. Through the encounter with Idalina and Brazida, which leads us to a reflection on the human struggle with fate, nature and mankind.

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

This film attempted to recreate the dark and tortured inner world of the musician Matt Elliott, also known for his work within the band Third Eye Foundation. Through its social and musical experiences, we discovered a rebellious yet lucid man, constantly observing the world, who is not afraid to give his views on contemporary society...

High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.

To be captive is to be confined, both in space and in time. The captive one is not only and necessarily a prisoner, but becomes an inherent part of that space, his identity being continually projected on it. The captivity space itself is in turn not inert; it is rather characterized by whomever it contains, it is shaped by that experience.

Its rotation allows us to decipher time and space, thanks to the intervals between the light beams. Without this key, in the sea there would be no time.

New Opportunities was a Portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early in life. This program encouraged students to re-elaborate and re-interpret their “life experience”, motivating workers to reflect on their work conditions and their roots. A reflection on work in the contemporary world.

A filmmaker in the statistical middle of his life suffers from chronophobia. He has to find a way to slow down the passage of time. A personal essayfilm exploring the essence of time.

Avi Mograbi and his long-time friend Ali embark on a journey to a land that existed before borders were created. A world that existed, even though most of the people and especially politicians pretend it never did. A world where communities were not divided along religious lines. With a light hand held camera, Mograbi continues to question the history of Israel. Everything is still possible.