A Viagem

The life, work, controversies, thought and cultural legacy of Portuguese poet Guerra Junqueiro

During the pandemic the famous haiku poet, Matsuo Bashô, returns to his homeland. However a new generation inhabits his home. In this experimental short film, made entirely with internet archival images and online surveillance cameras, we retrace Bashô's spectral wandering, listening to the echoes that his poetry produces in the present. Film inspired in Basho's travel diaries entitled "Oku No Hosomichi".

A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 - Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that will gradually unravel the circumstances in which these original filming were made, during the period of Portuguese domination of Mozambique, based on Margot Dias' unpublished diary and other texts and sounds, from archives related to the colonial period. But it's also these materials' confrontation with the people we are meeting on the trip to Mozambique, to whom we want to return part of its history.

A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe.

Bazuka, a collector of recyclable materials, dreams of flying. To realize your dream the only alternative is to build your own wings.

The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life.

Short animation film by Leonor Arrimar

A filmmaker and an actress travel towards a remote location, in search of a particular house, and of inspiration for their next movie. The region is Douro, and the house belonged to Manoel de Oliveira, where he took refuge to create many of his works.

João, the son of Azorean immigrants living in America, goes to the São Miguel Island where he takes part of a pilgrimage, finding new values.

In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmmakers. The objective was, along the way, to offer workshops in music, cinema, photography, video and art to the population visited on the river's edge. The documentary is a record of the interaction between the guests and the local population. The Navegar Amazônia project captures and conveys contents of the Amazon in a unique way: from the heart of the forest and from the river to the world.

Made during the inspection of the Brazilian border with Venezuela and British Guiana, this film depicts the Amazon River and the boat traffic from several neighbouring countries, the cities of Santarém and Manaus, and the expedition up the Rio Branco to Boa Vista, where farming is practiced. At the boundary with Venezuela, Cândido Rondon receives a visit from the chiefs of the local tribes. The film ends with an expedition up Mount Roraimã.

"A view of São Paulo's rural architecture, from the remains of a sugar mill from the 1500s to a farm at the height of the coffee cycle in 1822. Documentary illustrating Morada Paulista, book by Luis Saia". (ACPJ/CCM)

“The artist, in his movement towards the ideal, upsets the stability of any one society. Society aspires to achieve stability; the artist aims for infinity. That is the artist’s responsibility and the spiritual sacrifice demanded of him.” Rui Chafes, O Perfume das Buganvílias, 2012 (19).

The film follows the routine of composer Alexandre Guerra in the process of recording the soundtrack of a film, held in the cities of Budapest and Paris. Throughout the narrative, we follow the backstage of making music for cinema: the studio, the orchestra, the soloists and how the surroundings of the cities influence and interact with these forms of creative art.

Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.

Evandro Souza is an engineer and travels for the first time to the interior of the country, in the village of Barreira Pequé, on the banks of the Araguaia River. He begins to make friends with the natives of the region, like Marão, but what he did not expect was to be involved in a murder. Evandro was the only witness to the crime committed by Marão, however, when questioned, he does not know what to say. Until there is a meeting between Evandro, Marão and the local corporal.

Documentary about the day-by-day of street vendors in Rio de Janeiro. They tell their dreams, longings, and the harsh reality faced inside the city buses every day.