Movies: Filomena Gigante

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled....

Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous jo...

Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique. As the two grow closer, they develop a spiritual bond steeped in attraction....

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012....

Eulália, a conservative Portuguese mother, found out that her son who emigrated to Germany has become Fostter Riviera, the internationally awarded first Portuguese gay porn actor. She suffers with the distance, sometimes toned down through the comput...

Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel....

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation ...

A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path....

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal....

Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley....

“1618” is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews....

New short film by Carolina Neves...

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships....