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- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- Born in Lisbon during the Fascist Regime in order to control students coming from the portuguese overseas colonies, the Casa Estudantes do Império, was fundamental to the independence movements in the colonies.
- An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- Cova da Moura Island follows this neighbourhood's daily life, finding the cape verdean reflections in it and searching for the ways in which social exclusion is fought or perpetuated in the lives of it's residents.
- The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
- From 1961 to 1974, 100.000 young Portuguese men went to war in the ex-colonies. At the same time, another 100.000 left Portugal to avoid that same war. About the ones who made the war a lot has been said, written and filmed. About the others nothing has been said, it is a sort of taboo of our society. What role did the men who "escaped the war" in the creation of the country we live in now? In what way did they resist? If there is an image of the unknown soldier, this film tries to show that other unknown man who refused to be a soldier.
- Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.
- 1950, 'Bairro Alto': João is 13 years old and decides to make his first incursion to the "prostitutes' district" in Lisbon. It was the beginning of a new stage in his life, set in a neighborhood also made of many distinct levels. What does remain today from the famous 'Bairro Alto'? The prostitutes and journalists, the artists and artisans... What has been changing, and how does it affect the future of the city? We follow the faces and the voices that fill up the empty streets with excitement, both day and night, in an attempt to inscribe the memories and expectations, dreams and desires that make up the whole of 'Bairro Alto', in the year of its 500th anniversary.
- How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
- Tango Privado results from the complicity between the performers and the camera. The initially choreographed movements adapt and reinvent themselves in an improvised way where the camera also becomes an interpreter.
- A gigolo is summoned to have sex with a widow who has just lost her husband. This is the extreme of the forced Mozambican tradition, Kutchinga.
- Letters from Angola is a voyage into a forgotten past where several stories intersect - that of Angolan-born filmmaker Dulce Fernandes and those of the Cubans who fought in the Angolan war. A journey through today's Cuba, the film uncovers the lost connection to a land left behind and it's a poetic reflection on the fragile place of the individual in the midst of the tectonic movements of history.
- Abandoning a life of petty crime, David strives to fulfill his life-long ambition to become a professional singer of Fado, Portugal's popular folk-song. Together with his best friend Adriano, he starts performing on Lisbon's Fado Vadio circuit to perfect his craft, but whilst Adriano's strong voice swiftly brings him paid gigs, David struggles. Vadio is a human portrait of redemption, perhaps unattainable through music but possible with poetry. Unfortunately, David doesn't want to be a poet. It is a love story for a bygone Lisbon and Fado, where people still find catharsis singing songs about their sorrows.
- Video about the Waves Garden (Nations' Park ), part of João Gomes da Silva and Fernanda Fragateiro's installation, within the "CO-LABORAÇÕES Arquitectos / Artistas" Exhibition, Sala Jorge Vieira, Nations' Park (Lisbon).
- Recording for RTP of Olga Roriz's choreography for the Companhia Nacional de Bailado.
- This documentary follows a group of habitants from Cova da Moura neighborhood into a journey to Cape Verde, to celebrate St. John festivities.
- In this journey, an intergenerational sharing begins with Portugal as the backdrop. The director and his young daughter saunter trying to understand the country they are part of.
- Remembering Expo 98. In a kaleidoscopic invitation to submersion, we returned to the World Exhibition that marked the 500th anniversary of the Maritime Expansion.
- A wedding is a contract between two people who wish to constitute a family in full communion of life, based in equality of rights and duties between spouses. The family's running lays on both and on their agreement about the steering of their mutual life and interests. This documentary attempts to show the plurality of weddings in portuguese society.
- IZIDINE, a recently promoted Police Detective, is called to an elderdy home set in a former colonial fortress to investigate a crime: VASTO EXCELÊNCIO, the home's director has been murdered. MARTA, the home's nurse tries to steer the investigation to the real crime, the home's very own existence. IZIDINE is confronted with a surprise: all the residents confess that they are the murderer. Their motives going from the way the director treated the elderly, beating them, the domestic violence perpetrated by the director on his own wife's, or the nurse confessing a love affair with the deceased who forced her to have an abortion. The detective will slowly discover that the real crime was a revenge. The director used the Home to smuggle weapons, which the elderly made disappear, sentencing him to be killed by his buddy criminals.
- Documentary about the old people living in the highest floors of old buildings with no lifts, in Lisbon.
- Original music "Histórias", by Rodrigo Leão, with interpretation by Camané, as part of the concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 25th of April, at the Assembly of the Republic.
- Movie in 35mm and Digital Betacam approaching the subject of "Man, Nature and Technique" for the Portugal Pavilion in EXPO'2000 in Hannover. Projected in a big screen specially created for the matter, with 16mx2m dimensions.