Isabel de Castro

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Hard Times” set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he ...

Ivan goes to live with his father, Vicente, the stationmaster, in a small remote village inland Portugal. People go about their chores, each ...

Miguel is a successful economist until his father’s death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and ...

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

Based on a the short story “Low Flying Aircraft” by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and ...

João is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of ...

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a medicine doctor, researcher on blood deseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ...

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the “Estado Novo”, the 48-year ...

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him. Release: Xavier ...

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose ...

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 ...

Miguel is twelve years old and isn’t doing well at school. As a punishment, he is sent for a few days to stay with his aunt, who runs a ...

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They ...