Raul Atalaia

L'amour est partout, imprévisible, inexplicable, insurmontable. Il frappe quand il veut et souvent, ça fait pas mal de dégâts... Pour le nouveau Premier Ministre britannique, il va prendre la jolie forme d'une jeune collaboratrice. Pour l'écrivain au coeur brisé parti se réfugier dans le sud de la France, il surgira d'un lac. Il s'éloigne de cette femme qui, installée dans une vie de couple ronronnante, suspecte soudain son mari de songer à une autre. Il se cache derrière les faux-semblants de ce meilleur ami qui aurait bien voulu être autre chose que le témoin du mariage de celle qu'il aime. Pour ce veuf et son beau-fils, pour cette jeune femme qui adore son collègue, l'amour est l'enjeu, le but, mais également la source d'innombrables complications. À l'approche de Noël, à Londres, ces vies et ces amours vont se croiser, se frôler et se confronter.

Téléfilm en deux parties : La jeune Julie va découvrir ses véritables origines en même temps qu'elle part sur les traces de l'assassin de son père. Sur fond de trahisons, duels et rebondissements à la cour du Roi Soleil, elle devra livrer un combat sans merci pour découvrir l'identité de ses parents, mais aussi pour s'imposer comme cantatrice et enfin pouvoir aimer Gaspard, son compagnon d'infortune.

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...