Latest news and stories about film in Portugal for expats and residents.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is followed by The Day of Revelation. The child-viewer has given way to the infantile viewer. Who needs everything spoon-fed. A column by Vasco Câmara.
The Alentejo region serves as the setting, and real estate speculation is one of the themes of the film “18 Holes to Paradise”. After directing “América” and “Mosquito”, filmmaker João Nuno Pinto draws on a personal story from screenwriter Fernanda Polacow to craft a narrative set in the Alentejo that portrays reality.
20-year-old Kane Parsons developed the project for years on his YouTube channel. Now, “Obsession” has reached cinemas and is already leading the box office
All that was missing was a drawing of the adventure that is the life of the director of E.T., and Amazing Ameziane has made several. Spielberg awakens the child (of the 80s) within us.
Woody, Jessie, and Buzz Lightyear, the main characters of Toy Story 5, which premieres in Portugal on June 18th, have a specially decorated 911, marking Porsche's debut as a sponsor for the film.
The film “First Date”, by Luís Filipe Borges, created on Pico Island, was awarded a silver trophy at the International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA) for encouraging tourism and promoting the Azores, it was announced today.
A couple breaking up and a serious illness. And the “Alba Rohrwacher effect”. The title of Isabel Coixet's film is an involuntary warning: reiteration, underlining.
This is a skillful film, perhaps even too much for its own good, which is worth watching as long as one is well-equipped to deal with the ambivalence that is its skin.
With The Post, an inevitable rhyme with Close Encounters of the Third Kind half a century later, the filmmaker creates a rollercoaster around what is most lacking in our days.
Spielberg does not always get it right, but 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is extraordinary: a classic carriage pulled by fresh horses and driven by a fearless charioteer.
The filmmaker's television debut takes place in the series 'Portuguese Psychopaths', arriving on RTP1 in 2027, but without being anchored in the past of Luiza de Jesus, an 18th-century infanticide. Setting: Portugal in 2099.
A film by Franco Maresco that wanders through the remnants of a film and an idea.
A conversation with the Ukrainian filmmaker about his latest film, “The Trial”, a fiction set in the dungeons of Stalinism during the purges of the 1930s.
The mockumentary “Bravo Bene!” by Italian director Franco Maresco, the new “Masters of the Universe”, and “The Trial” by Sergei Loznitsa are Eurico de Barros's picks for this week.
A cinephile and regular visitor to the Portuguese Cinematheque came across a negative for sale at the Feira da Ladra flea market in Lisbon and handed it over for deposit at the institution, which revealed today that it is the film 'A Lenda de Miragaia', previously considered lost
Espaço para Dançar is a documentary filmed over five years about a dancer on the autism spectrum. Her discovery turned into a performance is spacious.
The film 'Pai Nosso: The Last Days of Salazar' is inspired by true events from the life of the man responsible for one of the darkest periods in Portugal's history.
The film 'Pai Nosso: The Last Days of Salazar' is inspired by true events from the life of the man responsible for one of the darkest periods in Portugal's history.
The period film is an alibi: it serves to help us understand who we (still) are. In the dark with two Salazares, the one by José Filipe Costa, which has arrived in cinemas, and the one by João Botelho, which arrives in September.
This is an archival film, using a documentary practice similar to Manuel Mozos' previous works, constructing a visual narrative from news reports, features, and interviews.
Regarding the film 'Pai Nosso — Os Últimos Dias de Salazar', we pose the questions: do these figures make good characters? Do they have an audience? And how are these stories told?
The film 'Pai Nosso: os últimos dias de Salazar' portrays the farce created around the leader of the Estado Novo, who still believed he was President of the Council of Ministers after falling from his chair.
Between memories of the dictatorship, visions of war, parallel universes and life stories, there are new films in cinemas starting this Thursday.
Ali, Aqui premieres in cinemas on Thursday. It is a film made by residents of neighbourhoods in Monte da Caparica, Almada, who wanted to show their experiences beyond the existing stigmas.
In “Pai Nosso”, José Filipe Costa mixes the realistic, the dreamlike, and the anecdotal to recreate the final days of Salazar's life. Eurico de Barros gives it one star.
An overview of the LGBT-themed films at the Cannes Film Festival and a look at upcoming releases for the Portuguese market.
A film made by the community itself that captures minimal, everyday stories from Monte da Caparica, told by its residents under the guidance of Susana Nobre.
Looking at the last two years of the dictator's life, the first feature-length fiction film by documentarian José Filipe Costa is a bold work, not always successful, but always stimulating and unsettling.
An Internet phenomenon is brought to the big screen by its creator, and the surprising result is a mystery that can only be solved inside the viewer's head.
Jow Zhi Wei is a diligent student, but his first film is not particularly inspired.
