Funda Ccedil Ao Calouste Gulbenkian Movies

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

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...

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

Uncle Zé came from the highlands to Lisbon at an early age, and brought a particular bond with the earth and with men. In the rubble produced...

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira

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

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...

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

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

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

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

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

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

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

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

After the demolition of the shacks and the construction of new buildings to resettle the residents of the old Curraleira neighborhood, an empty space...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...