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At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.

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

A surreal dark comedy about the controversial issue of euthanasia.

A surreal dark comedy about the controversial issue of euthanasia.

Two teenage girls escape the war in Angola and have to establish a life in Lisbon.

Among the crosses of an old cemetery, two outlaws have a dispute over honor, companionship and greed.

In this "no comment" documentary, the author invites the audience to compare the fate of the two sides of river Tagus in the Lisbon metro area. While the north, blessed by the investments in infrastructures as consequence of the last world expo of the XXth century (Expo'98), blossomed from a decadent industrial era to a new sophisticated, ecologically sustained and culture driven paradigm, the south saw its previous leading and pioneering status in the industrial age crumble into vacant buildings and debris. Two realities - so close, so far away.

Through the observation of the river harvesters on the bay of Barreiro, a city right in front of Lisbon, from below the surface of the tidal sand flats, the film pursues a delicate portrait of their palafitic waterline architecture and mode of inhabiting inseparable from semi-clandestine activity. A landscape that has resisted industrial and urban pressure facing now on the border its own upcoming disappearance.

This documentary is comprised of three parts: a general view of the village and its surroundings; a detailed view of streets and facades of churches, commercial and industrial shops, and social and welfare institutions; and finally, the training of the volunteer fire-brigade in response to a simulated fire in a four-storey house.

Irene finds herself in a strange place. It's her date's house and his mother is there

The production of copper sulfate, a blueish powder, and its use to treat vineyards against some diseases.