João Matos Filmes

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

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

Somewhere in the mountains, a man lives alone in a disappearing village. Wandering through the misty nature, interpreting among the walls of his dark...

This film tries to make a silent record of the arrival of an economy of scale, its flows, and its effects upon the transformation of an...

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man...

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...

Europe’s largest lithium mine is about to start operating in Trás-os-Montes, much to the dismay of the local inhabitants. Frederico Lopo...

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to...

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

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

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão,...

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...

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he...

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...

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

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...