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- The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
- With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
- Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They stay together in her old apartment. Another woman also occasionally lives there: Kim, a beautiful, enigmatic and aloof Asian. Petra's disease is of no interest to Manuel whereas Tarso visits Petra obsessively in the clinic. Sharing the same space with Tarso is hard for Manuel. Their previous relationship was based on 'visits only'. Manuel is overcome by a sense of emptiness. Meanwhile, Manuel develops an erotic desire for Kim, a trans woman, who helps him discover Petra's body.
- A police inspector witnesses a male body being washed ashore at a beach near Lisbon/Portugal. He follows the tracks of the deceased, finds a deserted car, a video camera and encounters a misterious woman (Silvie Testud) who all seem connected to the victims death.
- Ne Change Rien is a 2009 documentary directed by Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. The documentary focuses on the French singer Jeanne Balibar in rehearsal and concert as seen through Costa's characteristically long, stark takes.
- A family man becomes obsessed with his front door neighbor. Slowly he gives up work and forgets about anything asides his obsession. Only a murder inside the family will be able to restore normality. A dark comedy with painful truths being played inside the family.
- This short subject consists of six outtakes from the 2001 feature Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie about the editing sessions of Straub and Huillet on their film Sicilia.
- 21 October 1929. During a voyage from Trieste to the United States of America aboard the ocean liner Saturnia, two great poets crossed paths: Fernando Pessoa and C.P. Cavafy.
- The biography of Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes.
- Contrasting personal and family memories and the vivid present, an islander revisits the archipelagos of Azores and Madeira guided by a travelogue book written almost a century before.
- They survive playing and singing their sorrows and happy memories. Young Mozambican musicians who play Jazz, Funky and Hip Hop join a group of elders who play Marrabenta, a musical style typical of Mozambique in the 1950's and 60's. This unexpected combination of different types of music works extraordinarily well, as we will see during their South African tour. This trip evokes the origins of each of the musicians.
- A woman on the run finds temporary refuge with a young mechanic in a small village. As their relationship develops, a third party disrupts their trust, sending the woman back into panic and flight.
- That year, I returned to Pico Island in the Azores. I wanted to meet the writer, poet and whale hunter, José Dias de Melo. I wanted to spend a few days by his side. But when I arrived I learned that he had fallen ill and was in hospital. Nobody could tell me when he would be back. So I decided to wait - I took with me one of his last books "Poeira do Caminho". I peruse it to pass the time. And if I listen, I hear his voice.
- 1989– 1h 44m7.6 (440)TV EpisodeTwo directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.