Funda Ccedil Ao Calouste Gulbenkian Movies

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the...

It's Sunday, day of rest. At the river, the father fishes and drinks, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays...

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

A documentary that aims at highlighting the daily lives of death people and what a "deaf identity" entails.

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific...

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira