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

Berlin laureates Gomes and Salaviza ring the alarm bell

Portuguese directors Miguel Gomes and João Salaviza (pictured), the filmmakers behind Tabu and Rafa respectively, both received awards this evening during the closing ceremony of the 62nd...  

18/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Portugal

Our beloved Tabu

In the style of a colonial film from the 1960s shot in 16mm, the prologue of Tabu by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) tells of how a crocodile became inconsolable...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Portugal/Germany/Brasil/France

What’s New About Love?: six films in one

What’s New About Love? is not only the first Portuguese feature film to be released this year, but it also has the added bonus of being directed by not one, but six different new directors: Mónica...  

06/02/2012 | Releases | Portugal

Fantasporto prepares its 32nd edition

The 32nd edition of Fantasporto will officially open on February 24 with the screening of Brit director Steve MacQueen’s second feature Shame, and will close on March 4 with Italian helmer Paolo...  

31/01/2012 | Festivals | Portugal

Variações biopic enters pre-production

Legal proceedings have ended between director João Maia and production company Utopia Filmes, so pre-production can finally move forward on the biopic about Antonio Variações (pictured), one of...  

30/01/2012 | Production | Portugal

A Woman’s Revenge and seven other Portuguese productions at Rotterdam

A Woman’s Revenge, the latest feature by Rita Azevedo Gomes, will screen in the Spectrum section at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, which will open tomorrow and run until February 5. In...  

24/01/2012 | IFFR 2012 | Portugal

Salaviza takes two new shorts to Rotterdam and Berlin

Young director João Salaviza (pictured) will take part in the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals with two different short films. The Spectrum Shorts section at Rotterdam will show Cerro Negro,...  

20/01/2012 | Festivals | Portugal

A lacklustre 2011 heralds turbulent 2012

It was a year of crisis, unsurprisingly, for cinema too: in 2011, with 15.7m admissions sold, Portuguese movie theatres lost 866,000 viewers compared to 2010. In terms of takings, these figures...  

18/01/2012 | Box Office | Portugal

New film law proposal rejected in parliament

The bill for the new film law, submitted by the Socialist party, was rejected last Friday in Portugal’s parliament, with votes against from the centre-right parties PSD and CDS-PP, which have made...  

16/01/2012 | Legislation | Portugal

Berlinale: Gomes’s Tabu to vie for the Golden Bear

Tabu, by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, will vie for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlinale, which will run from February 9-19. This is the first time since the screening of Manuela Viegas’s...  

10/01/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Portugal

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