In 1588, a castaway from the Spanish Armada, sent from Portugal by Philip II of Spain to conquer England, is captured on an Irish beach. There he is tried, declared guilty and hanged to death. All of this would be reasonable according to the laws of war and hatred among humans. The problem is the prisoner is a monkey.
Rosa, uma profissional de topo, altamente cotada no mercado empresarial, leva uma vida exigente e inteiramente dedicada ao seu trabalho. A morte do avô, de quem se tinha progressivamente afastado, devido ao trabalho inesgotável, acaba por lhe provocar um súbito ataque de stress que coloca em dúvida as suas escolhas. Rosa decide, então, abandonar a cidade e partir ao encontro do lugar e das memórias da sua infância, vivida ao lado do seu avô. Ao chegar à propriedade isolada, no meio da paisagem transmontana, descobre que o avô lhe deixou um conjunto de terras praticamente abandonadas e a casa da sua infância quase em ruínas. Levada pelo remorso e pela necessidade de encontrar novo rumo para si, tenta reconstruir a casa e os campos. Rosa, contudo, não está sozinha. Além das pessoas com quem estabelecerá novos laços, surge um grupo de demónios de barro modelados pelo seu avô que parecem, por vezes, ganhar vida, aconselhando-a e orientando-a e consolando-a, como ele próprio teria feito.
A shoemaker wrapped up in memories of his life and the demands of his job, experiences a crucial moment in his existence. We accompany him through an enormous day in his life which will determine his future.
Rio de Janeiro, near future. Marlow is a police officer assigned to a mission to find Captain Kurtz, a famous policeman who went missing in mysterious circumstances. Marlow has to do his mission in a boat, undertaking a dangerous journey through the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
At evening, Carlos disappears... Lea, Pedro and Rafa start looking for him, they search all around Sintra. Was already night time when there was just one place they didn't go... the Castle "dos Mouros". Even how frightened they were the start the walk, through the castle. At that time parents were already worried. It wasn't the first time a kid disappeared, a legend of a monster existed in Sintra... Híssis.
Cândido nunca a amou. A manipulação é o seu jogo preferido.
História de uma viagem de 60 dias a andar em Cabo Verde. Sem telemóvel ou relógio, sem programar antecipadamente e com o essencial às costas, o viajante descobre as montanhas, povoações, o mar, uma tartaruga, a música, as cabras, a bruma seca, os cabo-verdianos, e, acima de tudo, uma parte essencial de si mesmo.
Ivan has worked has a butcher all his life. His dream is to have a furniture shop, but he isn't sure he is brave enough to change now. The Butcher's is an old family tradition and has been passed from generation to generation, and it weighs on Ivan like destiny itself. He has a daily routine: a machine-like customer service, yet, on his free time, he starts to draw furniture involuntarily. As time goes by he wants to make more and more sketches but keeps getting interrupted by his costumers. The more he urges to draw, the more often he gets interrupted. The more he gets interrupted, the more frustrated he becomes. Ivan starts to project his displeasure on his customers until the day he decides to solve the matter.
Um rapaz de cartão. Um caixote de cartão. Um rapaz de cartão faz-de-conta dentro de um caixote de cartão. Dodu, o rapaz de cartão, é muito sensível e vive numa cidade hostil para as crianças. Por isso, passa muitas horas dentro de casa, a brincar com Carica, a sua amiga Joaninha. Sempre que Dodu arranha a superfície do caixote de cartão cria mundos maravilhosos habitados por criaturas invulgares que o ajudam a lidar com as suas emoções e a crescer.
By mistake, she drinks the paintbrush water and turns into a drawing. From that point on, the world of everyday things and the world of creation dance around a cabinet. Inside it, each moment, each memory and each action become unique. As a book grows and becomes real, we follow the Tocadora in her creative process as the unfolding of an imaginary journey.
Chega a Espanha um conhecido matador português, El Matador, para realizar uma “faena” há muito esperada. Com ele, viaja o seu filho, Pedrito, que sonha, um dia, ser como o pai. Mas numa incursão pelos pelos bastidores da praça momentos antes da corrida, Pedrito trava contacto com o touro que será lidado pelo seu pai. Este momento muda todo o destino destas três personagens.
In a rocky island exposed to the elements, a lighthouse keeper lives alone with his daughter.
From the top of his tower, the father keeps vigil to the horizon line and for the safety of the passing sails.
With no other company, the girl develops a unique complicity with the sea, which brings her toys in the shape of debris on the shore.
Following the rhythm of the waves, these objects will unveil previous events, memories that the tide cannot erase…
A child is lost from her mother and refuses to move from the same place. A policeman stops everyone else to make her move. The still girl and the policeman that guards her stop traffic and stir up the city’s hearts.
Marta has just turned 40 and is tormented by the idea of not being a mother. Suddenly her life has passed by without stopping a minute and she looks back to see what happened to all the time that’s already gone by. She hasn’t had a boring life, quite the opposite, but from the first kiss she was given to the last man that broke her heart, her life has been a collection of heartbreaks and attempts to seek happiness in others. But now she has made up her mind: her life is hers, her pleasure is hers, and as much as tradition tells her otherwise, she is going to do whatever the hell she wants.
palindrome | adj. s. m. (Greek: palindromos, running back again) adj. s. m. adj. s. m. A verse or word or group of words which can be read from left to right or from right to left (Amor/Roma).