Catalogue des films de « Luisa Homem »

"There is no science, nor progression of thought without love, without passion, without identification, even when we focus on things apparently devoid of life, such as the evolution of a slope or the genesis of a downpour. You could, perhaps,...

The word "campo" (field) comes from the Latin "capere" (to capture). "Campo de Marte" (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon, "Campo" hosts today Europe’s largest military...

Sur les berges du fleuve Tejo, un homme vit entre la tranquillité du fleuve et les relations qui le rattachent à la terre. Filmé aux quatre saisons, "Terra Franca" fait le portrait de la vie du pêcheur portugais Albertino, entouré de sa femme...

One night, a group of workers realizes that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipments and block the relocation of the production, they are forced to stand in their...

Welcome to Cape Verde. The film opens with workers dismantling huge cargo ships, and then, in what promises to be a long-distance journey, it moves on to a farmer on his land, village workers getting ready for the carnival, tourists hovering...

"If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape." The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so it shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being...

A documentary that focus on the studio of the painter Gonçalo Pena. The space is confused with work, revealing an occupation divided between the solitude and silence of painting and the conversations between the painter and its visitors.

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...

"Bab Sebta” means in arabic the door of Ceuta and it is the narrow passage in the frontier between Marocco and Ceuta. It is the last obstacle that faces those who came from all over Africa to arrive to Europe. The film "Bab Sebta" visits four...

We stumbled across a great story at the cavaquinho manufacturer. In 1879, four hundred and twenty-three people from Madeira boarded an English ship bound for the other side of the world — Hawaii. One of them took with him a machete, a musical...