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861 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 02/12/2025.

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

Interview: Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

“I haven’t allowed myself to embrace humour before”

The Portuguese director discusses his new film, which proves that wedding anniversaries can be quite a trip  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

José Filipe Costa presents an impressive meditation on the maintenance of the status quo through a fictionalisation of a period in pre-revolution Portuguese history  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: First Person Plural

Review: First Person Plural

Sandro Aguilar’s feature is a magnetic, cinematic tour de force that brilliantly moves along the labyrinthine paths of human emotion  

05/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: Ariel

Review: Ariel

Lois Patiño returns with a dramatic fresco derived from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, before he spirals further into the Bard’s oeuvre  

04/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno-awarded Hanami

Awarded the Cineasti del presente section's Best Emerging Director Prize, Denise Fernandes' title is now competing in Göteborg, prior to being released in Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal  

24/01 | Promotion | Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

Interview: Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

"How do we answer the question of what makes life worth living?"

The Portuguese director shares some insights into his film, a surreal and heartwarming comedy about euthanasia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Review: May I Speak With the Enemy?

Review: May I Speak With the Enemy?

Alexis Morante recreates the time that the great comedian Miguel Gila spent immersed in the Spanish Civil War, a traumatic experience that the comedian was able to laugh about later in his monologues  

22/11/2024 | Seville 2024

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

Interview: Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

“I wanted to make a film where dialogue came through the body as well as through words”

The Portuguese director chatted with us about his film, which broaches post-natal depression and coming out  

19/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Review: Dreaming of Lions

Review: Dreaming of Lions

Portuguese director Paolo Marinou-Blanco’s satirical black comedy imagines a motivational seminar to help the terminally ill end their lives  

19/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Masha Chernaya's The Shards is the winner of Doclisboa's main international competition award

Masha Chernaya's The Shards is the winner of Doclisboa's main international competition award

Rui Pires’s Palace of Citizens gets the Best Portuguese Film MAX Award in the festival’s national competition  

29/10/2024 | Doclisboa 2024 | Awards

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