Movies: Alexandra Lencastre

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, ...

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme....

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso....

Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the comm...

A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women....

Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara....

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

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there....

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Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class....

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child....

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After the news of his father's death, young designer Jorge inherits the country house where he grew up in northern Portugal. Influenced by his girlfriend Ana, a successful writer, and because they have to decide the fate of the property, the couple a...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.....

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal....