email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Portugal


854 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 11/09/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Reel Suspects pins its hopes on Bodyhackers

EXCLUSIVE: Reel Suspects pins its hopes on Bodyhackers

The new movie in post-production by Portugal’s Carlos Conceição, who was acclaimed for Tommy Guns, is a parody about the worrying search for physical perfection  

11/09 | Production | Funding | Portugal

Tekla Taidelli  • Director of 6:06

Interview: Tekla Taidelli • Director of 6:06

“This film is a manifesto for disillusioned youths post-Covid"

VENICE 2025: The Italian director returns with a work on the cycle of addiction and depression, enlightened on this occasion by a different, hopeful angle  

10/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Interview: Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

"Those thermal baths have a magical quality, they are the perfect place to create intimacy"

VENICE 2025: In his feature debut, the Spanish director broaches the topic of masculinity in all its fragility, in a place suspended between past and present  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

Interview: Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

“It’s about building a community that shares not only a passion for the genre, but also the emotions that come with being there”

The head honchos of Lisbon’s flagship fantastical festival talk about cinematic curation in the Portuguese context and about questioning the bounds of horror film  

09/09 | /Portugal

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

Interview: Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

"I've always secretly judged my family, so I told myself I had to go back and realize what it really was"

VENICE 2025: The Mexican director talks about her film centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Review: Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

VENICE 2025: Gabriel Azorín has created a slow-paced, radical film, rich in dialogue, that intertwines past and present while set in a place suspended in time  

05/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America

Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America

VENICE 2025: The initiative, freshly unveiled on the Lido, will also extend to Spain and Portugal  

01/09 | Venice 2025 | Venice Production Bridge

Content Europe set to launch in Lisbon in April 2026

Content Europe set to launch in Lisbon in April 2026

The new, three-day industry gathering initiated by C21Media is positioning itself as a sales and acquisitions hub  

25/08 | Industry | Market | Portugal/UK

Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

Interview: Maureen Fazendeiro • Director of The Seasons

"The political is already in the poetry"

The Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending archaeology, oral history and local myth into a docu-fiction, and how her approach reflects the layered landscapes of Alentejo  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: The Seasons

Review: The Seasons

Maureen Fazendeiro’s hybrid film whisks us off to the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, and unearths artefacts, stories and songs  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Privacy Policy