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837 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Review: Telepathic Letters

Review: Telepathic Letters

Portuguese experimental filmmaker Edgar Pêra uses AI to explore the philosophical intersections between Fernando Pessoa and HP Lovecraft  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Venice Giornate degli Autori entry Manas

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Venice Giornate degli Autori entry Manas

The film by Brazil's Marianna Brennand follows a girl confronting the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their Amazon rainforest community  

02/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Miguel Gomes’s Cannes hit Grand Tour sells big worldwide

Miguel Gomes’s Cannes hit Grand Tour sells big worldwide

The Match Factory has closed a raft of deals with key territories including Spain, Poland, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea and Australia  

05/07/2024 | Industry | Market | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China

Review: The Flame of a Candle

Review: The Flame of a Candle

The talented and impenetrable Portuguese filmmaker André Gil Mata journeys through time to explore the space of a home and two women’s lives  

05/07/2024 | Films | Reviews | Portugal/France

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

Margarida Cardoso  • Director of Banzo

Interview: Margarida Cardoso • Director of Banzo

“One of the challenges of the film is that it takes place from the point of view of those in power”

In her new feature, the Portuguese director focuses on a little-discussed historical happening: the death of expatriated African workers owing to their longing for their homeland  

04/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Gold Songs

Review: Gold Songs

Ico Costa’s beautiful yet heartbreaking film follows two people as one beating heart, as a flash of light in the midst of the darkness  

01/07/2024 | FIDMarseille 2024

Lois Patiño's Ariel enters its final post-production phase

Lois Patiño's Ariel enters its final post-production phase

The Spanish director has travelled to the Azores islands to play with texts by William Shakespeare accompanied by actresses Irene Escolar and Agustina Muñoz  

18/06/2024 | Production | Funding | Spain/Portugal

Review: Our Land, Our Freedom

Review: Our Land, Our Freedom

Meena Nanji and Zippy Kimundu’s documentary finds Kenya’s history, and perspectives on the 1950s Mau Mau uprising, being rewritten in the present day  

17/06/2024 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2024

Avelina Prat has shot her second film, The Portuguese House

Avelina Prat has shot her second film, The Portuguese House

Manolo Solo, María de Medeiros and Branka Katić star in the story of uprooting, identities, new homes, discoveries and life twists  

12/06/2024 | Production | Funding | Spain/Portugal

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