Alexandre O'Neill

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Seul film documentaire de Luis Buñuel, tourné en 1932 dans la région de Las Hurdes (Estrémadure), à partir de la thèse ethnographique de Maurice Legendre, directeur de l'Institut Français de Madrid, « Las Jurdes : étude de géographie humaine » (1927), « Terre sans pain » ne fut sonorisé qu’en 1937 puis en 1996 lorsque Buñuel décida de diffuser une version non censurée du film avec son producteur Pierre Braunberger. Remarquable par son sujet, la misère en milieu rural, peu traité à l’époque, par son montage (fait par Buñuel « sur une table de cuisine, à Madrid »), l'usage du gros plan, de la piste sonore et par la place assignée au spectateur par le film, le film continue à surprendre aujourd’hui encore.

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.

The film sought to portray a relatively unknown and isolated rural world and, through a highly politicized discourse, affirmed the genuineness of “folk culture.” Representative of the new documentary film movement that developed in Portugal after the revolution, the movie encouraged the local retrieval of the Caretos tradition. A ritual that seemed to be doomed by the conjoined impact of emigration, the colonial war and the crisis of agriculture was thus brought back to life. - Paulo Raposo

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...

With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling the story of a small film crew in a village living day to day.

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

After a fatal crash involving her brother, Elsa tries to escape her corrupt & prejudiced background, making Francisco (the victim’s dad) – a wealthy family’s driver – resign himself with the unavoidable so as not to compromise his employer’s son, thus trying to gain something from the tragedy.