Catalogue des films

A locked up house where one can play. The plants no-one takes care of for months. The husband who went clandestinely to France. The house build for some thirty years and the unfinished house, the house of our dreams. It’s summertime, the month...

Maria do Céu is a nurse for more than forty years. She works at an old Hospital in Lisbon, she takes care of patients in their houses, and she classifies files... She decides to return to her home village.

In 1942, my grandmother was forced to leave her Russian village, which had been burnt down by the German army. She was twenty-five years old at the time, and died thirty-six years later, here in France. I was ten years old then. I knew little...

When an archive is watched, it can be read, understood and lived in the present. It is an injunction to determine our position. Some close their eyes, others get indignant, resigned, and some others try to get involved in the world, thinking that...

My maternal uncle, Joseph Katz, emigrated to Palestine in April 1948, one month before the Declaration of Independence of Israel. He bore the illusion of building a socialist State in Palestine. In 2006, I went to Israel to see him and take up...

The last inhabitants of the Azinhaga dos Besouros, on the outskirts of Lisbon, don't have any legal right to be included in the "Special Rehousing Program". They live their neighbourhood’s demolition, where it will be built a freeway. “-...

A large cardboard box left forgotten in a cellar. Dozens of 8 mm film reels. A few details about place and dates. Home movies and images filmed in twenty or so psychiatric clinics. The forgotten archives of the psychiatrist, George Daumezon....

What is political discourse? What is a militant phrase? What change does it make to see a militant in the effort of speech, challenged to clarify his thoughts and the values, which underlie them? In the combative follow-up to the last presidential...

An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, she raises issues he is yet not ready to address....

Three gifts. Three intimate discussions about cinema. During these three encounters, Japanese director Naomi Kawase (Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival 2007) reveals the vital and sensitive bonds, which tie her to the world of cinema. This intimate...