João Matos Filmes

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving...

In Hindu mythology, RAHU is the severed head of a demon responsible for swallowing the sun and causing the eclipses. It is also Alex Zhang Hungtai,...

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in...

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

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of...

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...

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

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

A film about a show and the issues the players face during their collective artistic work. Will we ever be able to leave our cocoons towards a...

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica....

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...

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

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,...

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing...

At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure...

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and...

Documentary on the work of Helena Almeida, a plastic artist that, since the end of the 60s, has developed a body of work in which she explores the...