João Matos Filmes

New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will...

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

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.

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...

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

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....

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...

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

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...

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

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...

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...

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,...

They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table...

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...

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People...

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...

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