Valdemar Santos

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Não Sou Nada
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Não Sou Nada

Jan 25, 2023
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
Drama
Centro Histórico
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Centro Histórico

Nov 10, 2012
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Drama
De Castigo
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De Castigo

Nov 28, 2010
Many years after having been locked in the basement by his father, Samuel believes he is still grounded.
Drama
Diálogos Depois do Fim
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Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Drama
O Coveiro
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O Coveiro

Dec 08, 2012
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
Horror
La Sibylle
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La Sibylle

Oct 12, 2023
Adapté du roman éponyme portugais de Augustina Bessa-Luis, et inspiré de faits réels, le film décrit la relation faite d'admiration e de jalousie entre une jeune autrice et sa tante, dans la campagne septentrionale portugaise, au milieu du XXème siècle.
Drama
Vidros partidos
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Vidros partidos

Nov 10, 2012
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.
Documentary
Grito
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Grito

Jul 15, 2024
One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.
Alma Viva
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Alma Viva

Nov 03, 2022
Comme chaque été, la petite Salomé retrouve le village familial, niché au creux des montagnes portugaises, le temps des vacances. Tandis que celles-ci commencent dans l’insouciance, sa grand-mère adorée meurt subitement. Alors que les adultes se déchirent au sujet des obsèques, Salomé est hantée par l’esprit de celle que l'on considérait comme une sorcière.
Drama
Amelia's Children
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Amelia's Children

Jan 18, 2024
Orphelin depuis sa naissance, Edward découvre à l’âge adulte qu’il a un jumeau et une mère qu’il ne connait pas. Avec sa petite amie Ryley, il part les rencontrer dans leur magnifique demeure isolée au cœur d’une région recluse. Les retrouvailles passées, le jeune couple se rend compte que les apparences sont trompeuses : la famille d’Edward cache un monstrueux secret. Leur visite va tourner au cauchemar...
Horror
Pródigo
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Pródigo

Nov 27, 2018
Based on the tale of the Prodigal Son, 'Prodigal' is a film about the relationship about father and son, and a simple gesture of love. Shot on 16mm in a single location.
Mosquito
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Mosquito

Mar 05, 2020
Rêvant de grandes aventures et de défendre sa patrie, un jeune homme portugais s’enrôle dans l’armée durant la Première Guerre Mondiale. Il est envoyé au front au Mozambique, en Afrique. Abandonné par son unité, il s’engage dans une longue traversée de la mystique terre Makua, marchant des milliers de kilomètres à la recherche de ses rêves.
Drama
Ubi Sunt
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Ubi Sunt

Dec 18, 2016
Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of a audiovisual research residency of humam and urban exploration of an expanding city. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?". Reflective essay on mortality and life's transience, it emerges from that dialectic, of a and episodic and fragmented structure with a choreographed cinematography; where the memory intersects the contemporary.
Drama
O Facínora
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O Facínora

Jan 01, 2012
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.
Fantasy
O Guardador
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O Guardador

Jun 11, 2015
Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to live. Aurora passes by him every morning and end of the day. One day she is brave enough to talk to him.
Drama
Pena Fria
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Pena Fria

Sep 20, 2014
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
Drama
Estrada de Palha
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Estrada de Palha

Jun 28, 2012
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
Adventure
Uma Vida Sublime
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Uma Vida Sublime

Feb 25, 2018
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?
Thriller
Ornamento e Crime
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Ornamento e Crime

Oct 30, 2015
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
Drama
A Caverna
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A Caverna

Jan 01, 2015
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
Horror
Carga
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Carga

May 06, 2017
In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.
Drama
Amantes na Fronteira
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Amantes na Fronteira

Dec 12, 2017
Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
Drama
Momentos
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Momentos

Mar 13, 2010
A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to understand what is going on.
Agouro
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Agouro

Jun 05, 2018
During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.
Animation
3x3D
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3x3D

May 22, 2013
Dans la ville millénaire de Guimarães, trois réalisateurs renommés, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra, Jean-Luc Godard, explorent la 3D et son influence sur notre perception du cinéma. Surimpression et superposition des images pour Peter Greenaway dans « Just in Time », interrogation ludique sur le nouveau spectateur de cinéma pour Edgar Pêra avec « Cinesapiens », esquisse d'une histoire du cinéma en 3D pour Jean-Luc Godard dans « Les Trois Désastres ».
Comedy
Surdina
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Surdina

Jul 09, 2020
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 to become stronger and try to get married again.
Comedy
Kinorama - Cinema Fora de Órbita
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In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.
Crime Abismo Azul Remorso Físico
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Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.
Caminhos Magnétykos
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Caminhos Magnétykos

Apr 25, 2019
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Drama
Luana
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Luana

Jan 01, 2018
Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side of the line.
Crime
O Espectador Espantado
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A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
Documentary
Rei Ubu
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Rei Ubu

Apr 29, 2023
Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s play, a political satire that, cyclically, turns to the reality of world politics.
Drama
A pedra sonha dar flor
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A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul Brandão.
Drama
Lusitânia
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Lusitânia

Dec 18, 2023
A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian mythology. This epic series weaves a tapestry of myths and tales while tackling fantasy, horror, humor, and drama.
Drama