João Matos Filmes

The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and...

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave...

On his deathbed, His Majesty Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories from the time when he dreamt of becoming a...

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each...

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta...

1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...

“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon,...

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native...

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world...

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into...

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this...

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Early Spring. A sonata, a train, a letter. Between his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death of his wife, Samuel faces...