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- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoAnabela MoreiraCleia AlmeidaA regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsNascimento FernandesVital dos SantosAntónio PalmaThe story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVanda DuarteNuno VazMariya LipkinaA suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
- DirectorSérgio GracianoStarsAlbano JerónimoAna BrandãoCleia AlmeidaFive characters meet in a esplanade, beggining a journey trought their lifes. "Assim Assim" ("So So") its a movie about relationships, about what we want for our lifes, and what we can't achieve. Tells the story of different couples, connected somehow with each other facing different problems. Between good and bad relationships, love and obstacles, anything can happen.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesBeatriz BatardaMiguel GuilhermeIn the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
- DirectorMiguel Gonçalves MendesStarsJoão AfonsoÀngels BarcelóPilar del RíoA documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
- DirectorTiago GuedesFrederico SerraStarsAdriano LuzManuela CoutoSara CarinhasA prominent and respected family inherits a beautiful home in the country, nestled deep inside a tiny village.
- DirectorPedro NevesLars is an elderly swedish man, who has chosen to spend his winters in solitude as a care taker of the few hiking huts next to Sweden's highest mountain Kebnekaise.
- StarsBeatriz BatardaAntónio DurãesAlbano JerónimoBeatriz Batarda plays Sara Moreno, a film and theater actress, known for the density of her dramatic roles and for the ease in crying in the characters she plays. With her father's illness, Sara fails to cry and is forced to accept the lead role in a soap opera, something that will transform her life completely.
- DirectorJoão MaiaStarsSérgio PraiaFilipe DuarteVictoria GuerraA biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsHanna SchygullaRüdiger VoglerChristian PateyImages and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.