Catalogue des films de « Armanda Carvalho »

"The whistle man" was a typical character of the Portuguese seaside during the Fascist Portugal. His story has so many versions that he has become a myth: A poor crazy man who lost his baby girl, a professional homeless who lived from the charity...

Mingling photos taken by the political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from the children of an assassinated communist activist, "Obscure Light" invents a form that recreates as faithfully as possible a family’s broken...

In June, 1961, around 60 students from the former Portuguese colonies – among them the former presidents of Cape Verde and Mozambique, Pedro Pires and Joaquim Chissano, and the former prime-ministers of Angola and Mozambique, Fernando Van Dunen...

Alentejo, sud du Portugal. Des dizaines de chœurs polyphoniques amateurs se rassemblent régulièrement pour chanter des airs classiques et des créations contemporaines de cante alentejano : né dans les tavernes et dans les champs, chanté par...

Lourdes Castro est reconnue comme étant l'artiste qui "s'occupe" d'ombres. Au cours de sa carrière internationale dans les arts, Lourdes a travaillé sur l'idée d'ombre, en lui donnant différentes formes et pour finir, en l'épurant jusqu'à...

"48? 48 years of Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal and its colonies. Accompanying the images of anthropometric photographs, voices of the regime’s much-feared Pide (political police) and its opponents remember. There is not only the secret...

Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places inhabited only by memories and ghosts. Traces of things which time, the elements, nature and human action have modified and still do. With the passing of time everything that was cease to...

Alberto Carneiro is a sculptor. He was born in São Mamede do Coronado, a rural area in the north of Portugal, where for several years he worked as a religious statue maker before embarking on the path that led to his becoming one of the most...

In 1963, PAIGC – African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Vert – started a liberation struggle against Portuguese rule. PAIGC’s leader Amílcar Cabral made always clear that they were fighting colonialism, not the...

Thirty-five years after it's independance from the Portuguese colonial rule, Goa is definitely a state of many contrasts. Together with a strong migrating Hindu population, there is still a Portuguese speaking minority which seems somewhat frozen...