Rosa, 20, left Cape Verde to settle in Reboleira, a poor district of Lisbon. She works in a bar to send money home to her children. Caught between the harassment of kingpins and daily police violence, Rosa tries to find solace among the women of the community. But her real escape is music…

Set against the backdrop of colonial Burma in 1917, this epic adventure follows Edward, a British colonial officer who abandons his bride-to-be at the altar and embarks on a journey across Asia. As he travels through exotic landscapes and encounters diverse cultures, Edward grapples with his fears of commitment and the weight of colonial responsibility. A sweeping tale of love, self-discovery, and the complexities of human relationships in a changing world.

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.

Liberada a gender-nonconforming historical figure targeted by the Inquisition. When the director falls ill, the lead must overcome obstacles to complete the film and do justice to the subject's legacy.

The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.

A powerful documentary that gives voice to Portuguese women from different walks of life, sharing their stories of struggle, resilience, and triumph. From rural villages to urban centers, these women speak candidly about their experiences with gender inequality, domestic violence, and the fight for recognition in a traditionally patriarchal society. The film serves as both a historical record and a call to action, highlighting the ongoing battle for women's rights in Portugal.

1907. Afonso starts life anew on a tropical island off the African coast, as a plantation physician. He is tasked with treating servants “infected” by Banzo, a profound homesickness fatal to many slaves who succumb to starvation or take their own lives. To prevent spreading, the group is sent to a secluded hill encircled by forest. Afonso tries to heal them, but understanding their spirits is a challenge stronger than any medical intervention.

On a remote volcanic island, where everyone wants to leave, little Nana learns, between tides, to want to stay. “Mother, within us, broken pieces are glued together with gold,” says the protagonist Nana, anchored in the future, to her mother in the time just before her birth and before departing the island, leaving her in the care of her grandmother. Denise Fernandes’ debut feature film impresses with the serenity and empathy with which it weaves a visual poem in the form of a film, both through its dramaturgy and the sequence of imagery it creates. It’s an evocative journey, with elements of magical realism, exploring notions of identity and belonging as it follows the protagonist’s path from childhood to young adolescence on the island of Fogo, in Cape Verde. She faces her mother’s abandonment, supported by a community, with melancholy but without falling into any trauma moralism. The tone is always affectionate, focused on giving new meaning to the broken pieces. Several family members or acquaintances leave that place, while she, in contrast to the dominant narrative, achieves full emancipation—by choosing to stay. (Susana Santos Rodrigues)

Contemplating the failure of his life, Rogério drinks until losing control of his actions and involves himself in a bar brawl. His alcoholic drift takes him to the city port, where he falls asleep while watching passing ships. When a young woman appears in the night, seemingly running from something, Rogério offers to help and enters a nightmare he never imagined it could become his.

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.

Through her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.