Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.

A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause. In the middle of the crowd inquisitive eyes of the State Police look for the slightest sign of dissent, and the ovation does not cease.

An alchemist is invited to the royal court of Ulzamar and tasked to cure the unacceptable condition of the Queen.

In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to raise. She embarks on a string of bank heists using a blonde wig and a toy gun and, in the process, becomes a folk hero.

In a world where fictional writing is forbidden, a writer must secretly make the events contained within his book happen in real life before publishing it.

A father is hypnotized on his deathbed, following his own method, and is left hanging between life, death, and dreams.

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

A couple ploughs a seemingly barren land. One day, they find in the ground a dark seed that will grow and become a strange influence in their behavior.

Based on family interviews and records of his trajectory, the director André Medeiros Martins performs an analysis of his mother's life history while documenting his own journey through self-knowledge. André is an artist obsessed with sex and who tries to find the reasons for these obsessions in stories about his late mother. From the exhibition of his works and reports from family members, he creates this auto-fictional documentary.

A lost pilgrim finds a strange house on the edge of the abyss and its mysterious occupant.

One of the jesters of a theatre company has to leave after the upcoming performance. The performance itself will determine which one that is going to be.

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.

Documentary short about the April’s Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Military officers – namely Captains and Majors – who banded together to overthrow the Authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal for over 40 years.

The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.

When an actor assists to the premiere of the experimental B-movie he stars in, film blends with real life, turning it into an actual thriller.

After a revitalizing experience on his way to work , Charlie is driven to reconnect with his past.