Movies: Elmano Sancho

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government...

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal....

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» a...

Laura is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception....

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes....

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The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by gre...

An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using Rasputine as his profile name. This virtual relationship becomes the centre of their lives and one day, they finally de...

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Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão....

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Teófilo de Braga....

At a time when it is forbidden to get togother to bury our dead, a little girl separated by an ocean from her grandfather invents a way to say goodbye to him....

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a loose story, memories, projects, meetings. Also because, since 1995, I have done several portraits o...

Five lives cross each other in the labyrinth of the suburbs in search of their redemption....

A two parts making of documentary, following José Augusto Silva and his film crew during the shooting of a university short film called Castelo....

Guilherme is a boy with 13 years old that plays tennis, he has to see and deal with his nightmares and his own fears....