At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

The King's Trial

11th century. Descended from the aristocracy, Alexis flees a world dominated by money and strength. The young man, in love with justice and freedom, sets off on the roads to discover the world, abandoning his wife and family.

Le voyage étranger

In Aparecida, 50 Km from o’Porto, the atmosphere surrounding this years preparation of the yearly festivities is tense: the new priest aims to discouraje the "Promise payers" from doing it having themselves carried in open coffins through the village untill th chappel of the Appeared Lady.
 Superstition against Theological Argument, fidelity to the vows or reinterpretation…  The conflict becomes unavoidable. It’s the local identity and its inhabitants identity that’s in stake.
 If this type of processions were common in the last century on the north of the Iberian Peninsula, this one, will probably be the last in Portugal.
 At the village of Senhora Aparecida the festivities of August are set.
 The main wooden bier that will carry the Saint may be 15 metres high.  It is now being assembled and decorated.
 Those who escaped death now celebrate life.
 The Lady redistributes the power she's been given.

Senhora Aparecida

Lisbon has the second largest community of Hindus in Europe. This film portrays this community, focusing on a family originally from Diu, who then emigrated to Mozambique and then, in 1976, to Lisbon.  The film portrays the contrast and conflict between this group of Diu families, low caste with the Lohanas group, the merchants caste.  A new temple is being built, however in the courtyard of his house the family Carsane still makes its parties and alternative rituals ....

Swagatam

A documentary about Álvaro Siza Vieira in Cape Verde and his project to restore the old town of Ribeira Grande, the first city to be built by the Portuguese in Cape Verde on the island of Santiago in 1462.

O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha

A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the 1960 and 1970’s. Considered as a director out of the mainstream, a loner, instinctive, Campos stands for the passion of filming.