The foam and the lion
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 17 mins. |
| Sinopsys: On July 6, 1808, the “Bom Sucesso” caique and 18 fishermen left Olhão, in Portugal, towards Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, taking with them the good news that Portugal was finally free of Napoleon’s enemy troops. But in the midst of a great storm, men lose their bearings and faith. The “Bom Sucesso” caique enters an enchanted realm, where a fantastic Marine Creature falls in love with him and will try to save him from a tenebrous Monster in the service of the enemy. |
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| Director: Cláudio Jordão, Cláudio Jordão Writers: Cláudio Jordão |
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Catisfaction
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 7 mins. |
| Sinopsys: This is a story about a man and a cat. No, sorry… A man, a cat and a dream. Wait… Maybe it’s a man, a cat, a dream and a vespa! It’s about relationships and how they can shape our life forever. But it’s also about a weird character and his cat who claims his way to eternity.
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| Director: Andre Almeida Writers: André Almeida |
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Octopus
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 8 mins. |
| Sinopsys: A foreigner arrives in a new city. He does not speak the language of the locals nor does he look like them: instead of two, he has several arms, like an octopus. Whenever he wants, the foreigner can pull off an arm and it grows back. He approaches people and even offers them his arms. In time, the octopus-man becomes part of the city, until the day he learns the new language... |
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| Director: Catarina Sobral Writers: Catarina Sobral |
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Ana Morphose
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2023 Duration: 10 mins. |
| Sinopsys: A little girl, Ana, reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Now, she has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems. |
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| Director: João Rodrigues Writers: Joao Rodrigues, Pedro Bastos Producer: Rodrigo Areias |
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Troada
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 3 mins. |
| Sinopsys: The cycle of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter seasons is suddenly interrupted by the storm and psychedelia. |
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| Director: Vitor Hugo Rocha Writers: N/A N/A |
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Something I said
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 10 mins. |
| Sinopsys: Departing from Belém, in Lisbon, three women travel to a city in the South of Portugal to meet the newest member of the family who is about to be born. During the road trip, we learn about their different characteristics, points-of-view and life choices — and it becomes clear that the three characters are more alike than we first thought. |
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| Director: Sara Barbas Writers: sara Barbas |
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Running Through Lent in Gois Villages
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 4 mins. |
| Sinopsys: With the revellers all dressed up, it was time to set off for the village races. The climax was the recitation of jocular songs about the inhabitants of the running villages, created from short stories and moments that happened during that year. |
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| Director: Jorge Marques Ribeiro Writers: Jorge Marques Ribeiro, Alice Eça Guimarães Producer: Marco Neiva |
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The Long Legged Man
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2023 Duration: 9 mins. |
| Sinopsys: In a blank space, a barrel organ suddenly chokes and plays on its own. The player with pin-tipped feet, now free from playing, may start a dance that makes him see what he couldn't listen to anymore. |
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| Director: Vitor Hugo Rocha Writers: Vitor Hugo Rocha |
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The Pink Jacket
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| Country: Portugal, France Year: 2022 Duration: 9 mins. |
| Sinopsys: A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system. |
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| Director: Mónica Santos Writers: Mónica Santos Producer: Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Fabrice Dugast, Jean-François Le Corre, Pedro Medeiros, Humberto Rocha |
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The Time Keeping House
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 12 mins. |
| Sinopsys: In a house where library, museum and workshops combine, one day, all books get sick. The restorer, followed by the house watchers, becomes the guardian of the book in which she had gathered pieces of the rest of the works she had managed to save — the book that will save all the others. |
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| Director: Joana Imaginário Writers: Joana Imaginário, Renato Rocha, Joana Pereira da Silva, Maria João Vieira Producer: Nuno Beato, Diogo Carvalho |
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Deep breath
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| Country: Portugal Year: 2022 Duration: 4 mins. |
| Sinopsys: During the late hours of the night a form tries to fall asleep. Struggling to maintain control, it gets trapped into vicious cycles of abstract madness, visually and audibly growing into a visceral and bizarre conflict between compression and decompression. |
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| Director: Leonor Pacheco Writers: N/A N/A |
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Garrano
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| Country: Portugal, Lithuania Year: 2022 Duration: 14 mins. |
| Sinopsys: A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire. |
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| Director: David Doutel, Vasco Sá Writers: David Doutel, Vasco Sá Producer: Agnė Adomėnė, Rodrigo Areias, David Doutel, Vasco Sá |
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Ice Merchants
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| Country: Portugal, France, United Kingdom Year: 2022 Duration: 14 mins. |
| Sinopsys: Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, heading to the village far away on the ground, to sell the ice they produce daily. |
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| Director: João Gonzalez Writers: João Gonzalez Producer: Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença |
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