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2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.

In 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island ruled by religion and traditions. In between Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, and her friend Cloé from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey filled with new desires. Wolf and Dog is the enchanting ode to the island's queer community where the twilight glow crosses the immense Atlantic Ocean.

Shortly after the death of his wife, a father of four retreats into bed and into mourning until the house is left to self-manage. The older children think about how to pull him out of this stupor; the eldest begins by mimicking their mother's voice. Soon, the game spirals out of control, just like each of their identities.

Rosa is a successful designer living in a generic big city. After the unexpected death of her grandfather, she realizes she's not been in a place where she felt connected or loved since she left her homeland.

In 2013 the military police of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.

Follows the story of a woman in her forties who becomes friend with an ex colonel and riding instructor with a shady past.

A historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.

It follows 40-year-old Helena, who, after the death of her mother, has time for herself. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, and gets drunk.

One night, a group of workers discover their factory is being dismantled by the same administration that runs it. Quickly, the labourers organize themselves in order to occupy the plant.

Two twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery while it slowly devours them.

A chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Rastafarian Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an adventurer whom he doesn't know. But things never go as planned in life - and particularly in this charming search for Djon's identity.

Like a letter sent to a time to come, we dive into the past and follow the experience of a young artist, Margarida Tengarrinha, who goes clandestine in Portugal and becomes a document forger for political militancy reasons.

A dystopian reflection on the current Brazilian political climate since the dismissal of President Rousseff, through two renegade characters waiting for redemption in the city of Brazilia.

Salome picks up a summer job in the garbage dump of a village. From unexpected encounters to shared sorrows, comes the promise of a new life.

A young woman suddenly disappears, leaving her husband and son in disarray.

1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year.

Lost in a forest, Tiago encounters a girl named João. She lives isolated from society, sheltered from the outside world. João is an immaterial girl; she is who she wants to be, regardless of her age, gender, or skin color.

At dawn a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well.

Portuguese hybrid between fiction and documentary, youth and adulthood, and a young couple's widely different views of a dark future. Mariana is a young woman in her 20s who has moved from her parents' home in the northern part of crisis-ridden Portugal to Lisbon, to live with her boyfriend Alex. But now he is on his way to New York to pursue his ambitions as an actor. The two of them differ quite dramatically in their approach to the country's crisis and bleak prospects when they meet again in her home town, where a local myth talks about how crossing the river of oblivion will allow you to put the past behind you. Mariana and Alex must make their own choices. Lisbon, which is gradually recognized as a new Berlin, and the desolate landscapes in the north of the country are the locations where an elegant encounter takes place between a real social reality, the couple's own experiences and a cinematic vision, which is not limited by documentary dogma. 'A Girl of Her Age' is Márcio Laranjeira's debut and in its own words a 'documentary novel', in which Laranjeira demonstrates a special sense of a place's atmosphere and character, and for the underlying social and political currents.

Amid the fog and the labyrinth of time, while machines probe the geological depths of the mountain, a shepherd searches for an errant cow. Childhood finds its way back, the mountain transforms itself, the cycle continues.