Films produced by Funda Ccedil Ao Calouste Gulbenkian

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...

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...

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

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

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

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

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

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...

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...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

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

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

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

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific...

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

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...

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

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