Beautiful
For more than 20 years, Lindo hunted sea turtles on Príncipe Island. After an encounter with an unexpectedly docile turtle, he decided to change his life to start protecting the animal from other predators. He now delves into his past to find the clues that will launch a debate about the future of the island […]
The best of worlds
Marta and Miguel are part of a group of scientists and are a couple in their private life. Their relationship is put to the test when data analyzed by Marta points to a very high probability that a huge earthquake could hit Lisbon. The scientists are divided in the debate about whether or not to […]
Heartless
Summer 1996, on the coast of Alagoas. Tamara is enjoying her last few weeks in the fishing village where she lives, before leaving to study in Brasilia. One day, she hears about a girl they call “Heartless” because of a scar on her chest. As the summer progresses, Tamara becomes attracted to this mysterious girl.
5861
5861 emerges as a documentary short film, in which the imposing natural beauty of the Serra da Estrela serves as a backdrop to reveal fragments of the life of Henrique Rebelo, a former driver in the Portuguese Colonial War.
The Mosquito Dance
Between the past and the present, an omniscient narrator travels through places, objects and people, while awakening memories disturbed by phantom gears. The result of collecting and interpreting life stories that unfold over the landscape of the foothills of Serra da Estrela, A Dança dos Mosquitos is a cinematographic essay that seeks to give stage […]
ARTS 4 People and Earth
As part of the “ARTS 4 People and Earth” project, five films were made that delve into the relationship between human beings and society with the environment and nature and with the climate emergency from different perspectives. Each film encapsulates a unique story and narrative, but they all share a common thread: the Serra da […]
The Bio Estrela Project
Forest fires are threatening to destroy one of Portugal’s last natural regions, the Serra da Estrela. If the fires continue, Portugal will lose more than the trees it burns. It will lose the generations of history and tradition kept alive in the farming communities and villages that survive and live off the forests. Young people […]
One with the whale
Hunting whales is a matter of life and death for the inhabitants of St. Lawrence, a small island in the Bering Sea. So when Chris Agra Apassingok becomes the youngest person to harpoon a whale in his Alaskan village, his mother proudly shares the news on Facebook. To her surprise, thousands of keyboard activists brutally […]
Book “A Portuguese Look: Cinema and Nature in the 21st Century”
“How does contemporary Portuguese cinema represent nature? What motifs from the natural world animate Portuguese films released since 2000? What narrative, conceptual and aesthetic forces does our recent cinema find in this independent, continuous and simultaneous manifestation of life, that is, of its physical phenomena and beings?” These were the questions that motivated Filipa Rosário […]
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