Funda Ccedil Ao Calouste Gulbenkian Movies

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A...

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the...

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power...

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

It's Sunday, day of rest. At the river, the father fishes and drinks, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays...

A documentary that aims at highlighting the daily lives of death people and what a "deaf identity" entails.

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in...

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an...

“The artist, in his movement towards the ideal, upsets the stability of any one society. Society aspires to achieve stability; the artist aims...

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira