With no parents, tutors, nor any watch in sight, a girl and two boys spend some summer days. There’s an amateur rugby match, a party, a trip to the beach; and also a slight romantic tension, some three-way kissing and half-joke, half-serious fights. But there are almost no words: part of it is because these kids don’t know very well how to talk to each other, and also because G...
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
A tale of urban margins immersed in the darkness and the ever-cleansing Portuguese city of Porto. During spectacular explosions, the communal blocks in the Bairro do Aleixo district turn to dust. The elegantly sketched femme fatale (Ana Moreira), seemingly taken out of Wong Kar Wai's films, devours a francesinha with a gallant killer (Valdemar Santos). Prison numbers regain the...
An aviation field in an unknown suburb. The lake underneath the city burns the streets. The mountains throw rock into the gardens. In the crater of a volcano in Fogo, a model Brazilian city is lifted and dissolves.
Two people find each other in this landscape, 50 years apart
Two young friends, pressed for money, are forced to beg. One day they come across a packet containing some clothes. Tired of walking around the city, they sit down on a park bench and start chatting.