Funda Ccedil Ao Calouste Gulbenkian Movies

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the...

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking

It's Sunday, day of rest. At the river, the father fishes and drinks, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays...

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

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in...

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A...

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 an...

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

A documentary that aims at highlighting the daily lives of death people and what a "deaf identity" entails.

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific...