Manoel de Oliveira

On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films. For ...

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What ...

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors ...

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. ...

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has ...

Manoel de Oliveira’s autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It’s an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully ...

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 ...

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince Henry the ...

Wim Wenders’ homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film ...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters ...

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.