Movies: José Oliveira

The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - ...

Roberto, a retired and disappointed journalist, leaves his work in a farm and goes back to his hometown, Braga, which he thinks will be his last hiding place. However, in returning, he feels a strong energy in the city and between journeys to the pas...

A man, a woman and a car....

A group of veterans from the Portuguese Colonial War reunites today. Among songs and memories, the past takes over them....

Through the most secret, arid and wild routes, a man approaches a big city. He looks at it from the top of a hill and feels like a stranger, having left years ago. He seems to recognize the surrounding landscape but, at the same time, feels unable to...

"35 years after, the movement of things" follows filmmaker Manuela Serra's return to Lanheses, 35 years after having directed "The Movement of Things" there....

The story of a young cinephile, who, coming from Braga, arrives in Lisbon, where he found a peculiar and fleeting job. Between the dark movie theatres, a girl and friends, the portrait of a certain era and of a young man like many, kind of lost, kind...

Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah....