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Competition / Portugal

53 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

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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

João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

Interview: João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

"My main character is built on doubt, rather than certainty"

The Portuguese director unpicks his movie, which continues to build the fictional universe of Nicolau, a world he has developed since the character's childhood through short films  

18/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: The Luminous Life

Review: The Luminous Life

Lightly ironic and slightly subversive, João Rosas’ first feature is an easy film to watch, pairing his long-time protagonist with Lisbon as the other main character  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

Interview: Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

“It felt important to show that even free time isn’t really free”

The Portuguese director explains how she puts us in the headspace of a warehouse picker in her remarkable debut feature  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary portraying a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra presents a daring and truly extraordinary film about the world of bullfighting, painting the portrait of a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: On Falling

Review: On Falling

Laura Carreira’s feature debut is a pessimistic look at modern labour, following a migrant worker in her job as a warehouse picker  

11/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Banzo

Review: Banzo

In Margarida Cardoso’s feature, a mysterious illness is befalling the workers on a remote African island  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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