SELECTED FILMS

Macanese Patuá is a vanishing creole language that is spoken informally in Macao (China) with a vocabulary drawing on Portuguese, Malay, Singhalese, English, Spanish and Cantonese. Macao’s theatre group Doci Papiaçam di Macau has been preserving this unique dialect for over 20 years through humorous plays performed in Patuá. This Is Macao is the group's patuá version of a Portuguese original "Lisboa é Assim" song.

Rosa leaves Cape Verde and relocates to Lisbon in the hope of giving her children a better life. Between the harassment of gangster bosses and police violence, she tries to find comfort in the women of the community and escape into music.

We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the first lesson was how to walk. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body.

Three generations of fishermen that know the Portuguese southwest sea like few, its charm as well as its tough reality.

The Angolares are the oldest inhabitants of the Island of São Tomé where, according to the legend, they arrived after a shipwreck. Once the masters of the island, they were defeated at the end of the 19th century and are now only found in a small fishing community. Between the myths and legends of this island ‘s stunning beauty, this documentary shows us the stories and culture of the Angolares people.

Liz and Bob are two solitary teenagers that stroll the city of São Paulo communicating through street art interventions and falling in love before even meeting each other. A film about a restless generation that cultivates freedom in the urban jungle and a rather loose adaptation of the life and work of British couple of poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning whose love began from exchanged letters and poems.