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843 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 23/07/2025.

Bruno de Almeida to open Lisbon Digital Fest

Director Bruno de Almeida has been chosen by the Village International D-Cinema Festival (VIDCF) to direct the film that will open its second edition on June 18. With this decision, VIDCF follows...  

06/02/2007 | Festivals | Portugal

Body Rice and Trance head to Rotterdam

Hugo Vieira da Silva's Body Rice and Teresa Villaverde's Trance (see news), two recent films produced by Lisbon-based company Clap Filmes, were selected to participate in the upcoming Rotterdam...  

18/01/2007 | Festivals | Portugal

Silence: We’re shooting Fados

Carlos Saura's particular interest in musical and dance-related projects is widely known and now the time has come for the Spanish director to focus on Portugal's traditional music. His new film...  

27/12/2006 | Production | Portugal

Bloody colonial Christmas

This year’s Christmas holidays bring the premiere of 20,13 Purgatório, the highly anticipated new film by 49 year-old director Joaquim Leitão. The film is the second title in Leitão's trilogy on...  

20/12/2006 | Releases | Portugal

Lusomundo and Cinema Novo: Towards digital screenings

Luc Besson's Arthur and the Invisibles was the film chosen last week to open a new phase for distribution and exhibition chain Lusomundo, which has inaugurated digital format exhibition in four of...  

18/12/2006 | Exhibitors | Portugal

Costa and Zbanic film times of changes

In the same week that British actor Daniel Craig is invading local screens with a reinvented and more vulnerable version of James Bond in the US/UK/Czech/German co-production Casino Royale...  

23/11/2006 | Releases | Portugal

New film by Fonseca e Costa on the screens

Sixteen cinemas all over the country this week will screen Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch, which marks the much-anticipated comeback of veteran filmmaker José Fonseca e Costa, three year after O...  

16/11/2006 | Releases | Portugal

98 Octanas in Turin

98 Octanas by Veteran Portuguese director Fernando Lopes will be screening out of competition in official selection at the Turin Film Festival, which runs through November 18. The film, produced...  

15/11/2006 | Festivals | Portugal/France

Blockbusters behind admissions increase

Admissions in Portugal's film theatres increased by 5% in the first nine months of 2006 (for a total of over 11.8m movie-goers) with respect to the same period in 2005 (nearly 11.m). The data was...  

13/11/2006 | Admissions | Portugal

Filme da Treta and Bird of Prey arrive on screens

After last week's release of Trance by Teresa Villaverde (see news), an entirely different domestic production opens in Portuguese cinemas today. Directed by José Sacramento, Filme da Treta is...  

12/10/2006 | Releases | Portugal

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