Catalogue des films de « João Gazua »

Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old Cape-Verdian, arrives in Lisbon 3 days after her husband's funeral. She's been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. "Suddenly, in the sumptuous darkness of a neighborhood haunted by solemn shadows,...

In Portugal, not every saint goes to Church! Born in 1843, Sousa Martins, famous philanthropist doctor, became, despite him and his struggles as a man of the sciences, the object of a true religious cult. A popular cult, practiced outside any...

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...

Bela (Beautiful). Pleasant, delightful, agreeable. Perfect for the end for which it’s destined. Wholly caters to our desires and pleasure. Chosen, distinct. Noble, generous. Proper. Ideal of beauty. Vista (Sight). Act or result of seeing. All...

“Things happen, they occur and we either take advantage or we don’t. There’s a children’s game that, in Portugal, goes by the name cat’s cradle: the children tie a rope in a circle, then someone’s hand does this, someone else comes...

"Generation Orchestra" is a portrait of the impact of an initiative by the same name on students from the Miguel Torga School, in Amadora. The initiative was inspired by the international project Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, the apex of...