Saramago: Documentos

Black Hole Apocalypse

Astrophysicists show how black holes might hold answers to how the universe evolved, leading to life on Earth and, ultim...

Horikita Maki: Castella

Documentary about the photo session for the photobook "Castella", filmed in Portugal.

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

Another Day of Life

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of...

The Story of Alfred Nobel

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established t...

The Lives of Albert Camus

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etrang...

Jaroslav Seifert

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churc...

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop...

Albert Einstein - Comment je vois le Monde

Camus, l'icône de la révolte

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights activists around the wor...

As Pedras e o Tempo

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory,...

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The Lost Forest

How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an international team of sc...

Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 193...

Wild Portugal

Picture a land of boulder-strewn shorelines, isolated mountaintops, and golden prairies. Here, packs of wolves stalk her...

Amour de vivre

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on...

The Last Marranos

Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in s...

Heavy Architecture

Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.