PRODUCTION DESIGN As the investigation into the purpose of existence is long and constant, the shooting of THE MEANING OF LIFE follows its own rhythm. Our protagonist has just found out he suffers from an incurable disease. While his finite nature becomes palpable, an urge to travel the world, meet new people, experience new landscapes, find himself, and discover the meaning of...
This documentary shows the preparation for and the celebration of the Christmas holidays in an area of Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-eastern Portugal where particularly archaic traditions have survived. The festivities continue from Christmas until Ash Wednesday, including Christmas, Saint Stephen, New Year's, Epiphany and Carnival. The birth, the life and the death of Jesu...
With no parents, tutors, nor any watch in sight, a girl and two boys spend some summer days. There’s an amateur rugby match, a party, a trip to the beach; and also a slight romantic tension, some three-way kissing and half-joke, half-serious fights. But there are almost no words: part of it is because these kids don’t know very well how to talk to each other, and also because G...
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
远离聚光灯，人们发现了一种保留运动图像的人机关系。文物和框架不被遗忘，并揭示了我们是谁，我们是如何思考和我们的感受。这是葡萄牙国家运动影像档案馆“动漫”的一部脆弱而充满激情的作品，在这里文化遗产和个人记忆得以永存。
