João Paulo Costa

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?

“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.

L’histoire retrace la vie, en 1940 d’Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Consul Général du Portugal à Bordeaux qui en pleine débâcle française refusa de suivre les ordres de Salazar et délivra plus de 30.000 visas à toutes personnes menacées souhaitant fuir la France. Parmi elles, il sauva ainsi du joug nazi 10 000 juifs, des artistes, des hommes politiques, des inconnus. Destitué de ses fonctions, il survivra pauvrement. Il sera déclaré « Juste parmi les Nations » en 1966 et réhabilité en 1980 par les autorités portugaises.

The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25th seen by a women perspective.

Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

In each episode, an apparently lost cause goes to court. However, the various stages of the case show us that not everything is as it seems and that no case is solved until the sentence is read.