Saramago: Documentos

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

November 2016 •German

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop star of the literary scene. As soon as he was on the bestseller lists, he turned his back on the hype. For many years, he has lived and worked in his house in a Parisian suburb, more quietly and more hospitably. Peter Handke's precise, free gaze becomes perceptible in his texts, his conversations, the cosmos of his notebooks.

Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence

October 1992 •English

Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as she discusses the lack of human rights for the indigenous people of Guatemala and her commitment to the struggle for a more egalitarian society.

BULIR

February 2024 •Portuguese

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.

Guy Debord, son art et son temps

January 1995 •French

Except for a few brief evocations of Debord’s “art” during the first ten minutes or so, most of this “antitelevisual” video consists of television clips illustrating the extreme degradation and delirium of the present society. It’s a powerful denunciation, but not so deft and subtle as Debord’s films, perhaps because it was made during the worsening stages of his final illness. Presumably intended as a parting shot at the society he detested, it was completed shortly before his death in November 1994 and shown January 9, 1995, on a French cable channel along with La Société du Spectacle and Réfutation de tous les jugements (whence the video copies that have since circulated).

longseason

January 2023 •Portuguese

In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

October 2016 •Portuguese

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?

Letters to a Dictatorship

January 2006 •Portuguese

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Letters to a Dictatorship takes us on an in-depth journey through the obscurantism that dominated Portugal for more than 50 years.

Wild Portugal

October 2020 •English

Picture a land of boulder-strewn shorelines, isolated mountaintops, and golden prairies. Here, packs of wolves stalk herds of ancient mustangs and tree-climbing carnivores keep entire forests on edge. Meanwhile, high above the crashing surf, a pair of storks attempts to raise a family on a narrow ledge atop a towering cliff. EUROPE'S WILD WEST is a place where survival is reserved for those with the keenest senses... and the quickest draw.

O outro lado da fruta

January 2023 •Portuguese

A day in the life of Marta, a raspberry grower who doesn't give up on her dreams.

Heavy Metal Portugal - O Documentário

November 2018 •Portuguese

The untold history of Portuguese Heavy Metal with: Moonspell, Tarantula, Thormenthor, Ramp, Sacred Sin, Arte & Ofício, NZZN, Braindead, Bizarra Locomotiva, Heavenwood, Procyon, and many more.

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha

February 2014 •English

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl.

25 Anos de Censurados

December 2015 •English

Documentary on the 25 years of the extinct Portuguese Punk Rock band Censurados.

Of Another Place

Invalid date •English

On a Summer afternoon, Pedro packs the last few boxes before having to leave his apartment in New York. 12 years ago, Pedro and Ana had arrived in America from Portugal, in search of a dream. Now, Ana's voice describes, from the other side of the ocean, that same country to which they are returning. As the rooms are emptied, Pedro bids farewell to one life, welcoming another. But the dream that brought him will remain forever in the city that never sleeps, awaiting his return.

Floripes

Invalid date •Portuguese

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf

December 2020 •German

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew

Invalid date •English

A love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.

Jaroslav Seifert

Invalid date •Czech

Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

March 1979 •French

Documentary on the life of Hubert Aquin. Alive, he was a dazzling and extraordinary character. Dead, he is already legendary. From his legend, everything is both true and false. Neither biography nor critical work, this film is an evocation of his universe.

One Voice

June 2016 •Portuguese

A documentary about portuguese punk/hardcore scene in Portugal.

As Pedras e o Tempo

March 1961 •Portuguese

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.