Isabel de Castro

Francisco just got out of prison after a six year sentence and is now a free man. He wants to change, and after a few days sleeping in the subway ...

Johnny, aged 20, can’t live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together ...

Based on a the short story “Low Flying Aircraft” by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and ...

“At first everything was relatively simple. I was looking for a boy of African origins, between 16 and 18 years old to incarnate the role ...

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António’s best friend. António ...

Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love ...

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a ...

Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, ...

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning ...

Confusion caused by Jerónimo, an old man abandoned in a hospital unit, staging his own death.

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter ...

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose ...

At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity ...

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o’clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the ...

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother’s death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to ...

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and ...

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will ...

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when ...

A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who ...

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In ...

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ...

Some time ago Gerardo knew another man of the same age called Berardo. When he said the name, Berardo expressed his oppinion violently, saying ...

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Hard Times” set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa – a “message” about the destinies of Portugal – not just in isolation but looking at ...

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt’s inn for holidays. First bored, ...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center’s music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother ...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis ...