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.

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

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira

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

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

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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