Joaquim Pinto Movies

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...

A portrait of a group of teens from a Rio de Janeiro slum learning to surf.

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less...

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When...

A trans* cook making a typical Brazilian plate, feijoada à brasileira.

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as...

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

This contemplative piece, an exploration of time’s passage and the permanence of nature, sets Beethoven’s “Sonata em sol...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy...

The artist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, who, on her return to Brazil after several years living in Europe, was confronted with the situation of violence...