2026 Movie Catalog

Pilgrimage: The Voyages Of Fernao Mendes Pinto

Dir: João Botelho

Over a span of twenty years, 16th-century Portuguese explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto traveled the continent of Asia as a soldier, merchant, diplomat, pirate, and missionary. Adapted from his historic memoirs and featuring songs from folk musician Fausto Bordalo Dias, this newly remastered sea-faring epic was Portugal's Official Entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

NORTH AMERICA

Astaroth, Female Demon

Shrouded by the mists of time, she has been forgotten ... But there is always someone to remember.Gregório is a tattoo artist obsessed with Astaroth (Monica Monteiro), a demonic entity lurking in the shadows with promises of desire and pleasure. With the art of tattooing and his arcane knowledge, he intends to rescue her from the mists of oblivion and bring her into the world of the flesh.

NORTH AMERICA

John From

Dir: João Nicolau

Bored by spending the summer in the city, 15-year-old Rita decides to take a fancy to her new neighbor, a photographer who is setting up an exhibit of his shots in Melanesia. What starts as a game turns into a blazing crush and Rita can't distinguish between reality and fantasy anymore.

Portuguese

Through The Shadow

Dir: Walter Lima Jnr

In this spine chilling adaptation of Henry James classic novel The Turn Of The Screw, a young Brazilian woman, Laura is hired to work as a nanny, looking after two orphaned children who live on their Uncle's coffee plantation, a remote estate haunted by hostile spirits. As she investigates the history of the family she discovers she has become the victim of a diabolical plot.

NORTH AMERICA

Dressed To Marry

Dir: Gerson Sanginitto, Ana Cristina Ramos, Paulo Aragão

On his wedding day, Fernando (Leandro Hassum) accidentally rips a woman's haute couture dress. The problem is that she is with her lover and must, by all means, return home with the perfectly flawless dress or her husband will suspect that his wife is being unfaithful.

Portuguese

Bairro

Dir: Jorge Cardoso, Lourenço de Mello, José Manuel Fernandes

The police tries to stop a gang of criminals responsible for several robberies in Lisbon.

Portuguese

Brazilian Western

Dir: René Sampaio

João do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.

Portuguese

Buddies

Dir: Marcelo Galvão

Three young people with Down syndrome decide to run away in search of three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly.

Portuguese

The Last Time I Saw Macao

Dir: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in Macao - have a dialog with the memories of the East built by the codes of the cinema and the literature - memories lived on a featured reality-, creating a testimony which tries to raise the veil on the past and the present time. A personal album of physical and emotional geography, structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of the history challenges the reality.

Portuguese

Estomago A Gastronomic Story

Dir: Marcos Jorge

Raimundo Nonato leaves the Northeast to try his luck in São Paulo and, by chance, discovers he has a talent for cooking. Everything goes well until a betrayal changes the course of his life.

Portuguese

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

Dir: Marcelo Gomes

In 1942, two men from different worlds meet in the Northeastern backlands in Brazil. Johann is a German fleeing the war, who travels through the cities selling aspirin. Ranulpho is a backwoodsman fleeing the hard life in search of a dream.

Portuguese

Carandiru

Dir: Hector Babenco

Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.

Portuguese