Catalogue des films

"Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that...

Rodrigues, a long time isolated island impacted by modernization and climate change. A time of transition in which cultural markers are shifting and local self-improvised ways of subsistence are falling into disuse. Amidst which, the decline of a...

We dream of going to the beach; Nelson wishes only to escape. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wishes only to work. While we are sleeping, he is awake. By day, we see him walk past, yet Nelson goes unnoticed.

Croatian Veterans from Pakrac, working with some of the medical personnel of the Pakrac hospital, saved around three hundred patients from certain death in a humanitarian evacuation organised on the evening of 29th September 1991. Most of the...

1975, the year after the Carnation Revolution. Eduarda, João and Mick come from Northern Europe to work in the co-ops in the occupied farms of central Portugal. Like many other, they come to help with the land and the livestock, give medical...

Unable to travel around the world, I decided to travel around the statue of the first man who (kind of...) circumnavigated the world, 500 years ago. Through the voice of Antonio Pigafetta's in "Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo" I find...

In the heart of Lisbon, a little abandoned neighbourhood caught between the Tagus River and the railway, is passing by two parallels movements. The end of life for some old lonely and humble people who live there and new high luxury building...

In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theatre group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play...

Reverend Sharon Risher was living in Texas when she received the news that her mother, Ethel Lance, was among the nine people murdered by Dylann Roof at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the...

Dans la soixantaine, Rita Bilodeau vit seule à Saint-Calixte dans une petite maison en bordure d’un ruisseau. Elle se dit bien décidée à vieillir heureuse, joyeuse et libre. En sa compagnie, nous découvrons les dames du club de scrabble,...