Baptismo de Terra(2016)

Rio by Them(pt)

​An unprecedented collection of pictures, characters and historical facts about the city of Rio de Janeiro, rescued by tv networks, documentary filmmakers and foreign journalists over the course of the 20th Century. The film reveals how Rio, its inhabitants and its cultural and natural attributes have been seen by foreigners. This is an opportunity to relive, through the eyes of a foreigner, social, political, technological and mundane events which Brazilians either did not manage to document audiovisually or whose works were lost.​

As Pedras e o Tempo(pt)

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

A REVOLUCIÓN (É) PROBABLE(es)

Dentro, fora do Brasil(pt)

Lua(pt)

Joseph Wilson meets the dance teacher fighting transphobic violence through voguing in Rio’s favelas.

Fatima: Miracle of the Sun or Harbinger of Deception?(en)

100 years ago an event happened that changed the world. Upwards of 70,000 were gathered in the little village of Fatima, Portugal. They were told, by an apparition that had appeared to three children—what many believed to be Mary of the Bible—that a miracle would occur. Something happened on October 13, 1917 and thousands of people witnessed it… It was called, The Miracle of the Sun.

Todo Dia é Dia de Feira(pt)

Amílcar(pt)

Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he emerged as the charismatic leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portuguese rule. With his utopian ideas, he sparked a cultural and an armed uprising that went on to inspire other African liberation movements.

Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew(en)

A love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.

Saramago: Documentos(pt)

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.

longseason(pt)

In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

Statues of Portugal(pt)

Launch of a competition, organized by the newspaper O Século, entitled Statues of Portugal.

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter(pt)

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

O outro lado da fruta(pt)

A day in the life of Marta, a raspberry grower who doesn't give up on her dreams.

Rush in Rio(en)

Legendary rock band Rush plays the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the final night of the band's 2002 Vapor Trails tour, in front of 40,000 fans.

Floripes(pt)

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

Retratação(en)

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last great desire: to be a good dead man.

Bus 174(pt)

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

We Could Be Heroes(ar)

Moroccan paralympic gold medalist Azzedine Nouiri is no longer looking for the longest throw, but to overthrow the system that keeps athletes with different abilities marginalized as destitute second-class citizens.

Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959(pt)