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Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal's recent past.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.

Madalena is a film producer having to deal with the recent death of her father, her 8-months pregnancy and the production of a B-sci-fi film where everything seems to go wrong.

The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in each other the serenity, the silence and the time they lost in the flowing water of the river.

Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno¹s sister and Marta¹s best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge¹s friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will emprision him and, convinced that his love and his lover¹s desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.

Yoon follows the regular round trip taken by Senegalese carrier Mbaye Sow, on an old Peugeot 504, along the 4000 km that separate the two places he calls home, Portugal and Senegal.

"The Chronicles of Polyaris" is a surreal portray of the abandoned Russian settlement Pyramiden on Spitsbergen from the point of view of a traveller lost in space and time.

A girl and a boy meet on a familiar place. Trying to escape from destiny!

Other Letters or The Invented Love deals with the passionate book New Portuguese Letters, a collective work written by the authors known as the Three Marias in the 70s, as a pretext for a short cinematographic inventory about relationships and affection between people today and always.

Inspired by real facts, SILENT MEETING is a vertiginous dive into initiation ceremonies at university life.

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in early 2014. This play was based upon texts by Federico García Lorca. However, the 119th company's show was no ordinary show, for in the cast there were 59 non-actors, amateurs and theatre students.

A day in the life of Sena, who lives in a cinema's projection booth, in Sarajevo, screening the few Yugoslavian films of which copies still remain, taking us on a journey through her past.

He came from the city and is trying to be there. He divides the time between picking raspberries, hunting, and diving in the canal. She is just passing through and belongs to the world he wanted to leave behind.