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Edward, funzionario pubblico, fugge dalla fidanzata Molly il giorno del loro matrimonio a Rangoon, nel 1917. Molly, decisa a sposarsi, lo segue attraverso l'Asia.

An environmental engineer accepts a position in West Africa, where he develops complex relationships with two locals while uncovering details about his predecessor's unexplained disappearance.

In questo racconto ammonitore, tre persone lottano per preservare la propria identità mentre formano un eccentrico triangolo amoroso nell'era di Internet in rapida evoluzione.

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there.

Ze, un diciassettenne, studia duramente a scuola per avere successo nella società fredda e insensibile della moderna Mongolia. Quando Ze incontra Maralaa, i suoi sensi si risvegliano e un'altra realtà sembra possibile.

Segui Crista, Carloto e João che stanno costruendo una ariosa serra per le farfalle in giardino e condividono le routine domestiche, ma non sono gli unici.

Plantation physician Afonso assigned to treat enslaved servants with fatal homesickness, Banzo, on an African island. Despite medical efforts, he struggles to heal their spirits on isolated hill, confronting existential challenge.

Muanza is a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo and trafficked to Brazil in the 19th century. Waking up nowdays, she finds herself in a time-twisting Rio de Janeiro. Figures from the past and from the present come into her search for her roots across the city's territory. A portrait of the experiences and struggles that create community and sisterhood.

Hundreds of migrants descend on the UK village of Great Yarmouth seeking work in the region's turkey processing plants.

A chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Rastafarian Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an adventurer whom he doesn't know. But things never go as planned in life - and particularly in this charming search for Djon's identity.

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and cowardly character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfred Jarry's play.

In the twilight of his reign, a once-mighty ruler refuses to acknowledge reality while his empire crumbles beneath the weight of inevitable change.

When Home stops feeling like one, wandering becomes routine. Time, space and emotions implode, blurring Lisbon with Bangkok. Past, present or perhaps future intertwine in a story that begins when L meets K.

1975, post-Carnation Revolution Portugal, many foreigners come help out in newly formed co-ops. But their progressive views on customs and sexuality soon clash with local mores.

School is over and there's a hustle in the air. In Porto, tourists fill up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now the highlights of the city's gentrification. Vicente moves around town on his bike and watches the urban changes happening day to day. The town is no longer the same, the world is changing and so is he. Among his family and friends, Vicente lives with anticipation the first days of summer and the beginning of a new life.

"Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another", narrates the voiceover. "All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn't invited to the celebration - the frog. In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide." Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed. In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday. Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position. As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative. Thereby transforming "once upon a time" into "there is". "Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed", explains a voice off-camera.

A courtroom is a theatre and a death may be staged. Two policemen are accused in a court of law of the unlawful murder of J. J's mother is questioned by the police officers' defense attorney, to determine who her son was: was he really who he is said to have been? Found beside his body is a gun and drugs.

Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara's seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organise a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious.

The chorus of dawn descends the burned mountain, echoing in the shale walls of a Portuguese village. Ruby awakens and stands in the half light. Outside, her dog Frankie has run away. Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either. Her best friend, Millie, will be returning to England; the end of their childhood meets the end of a warm summer day.

In an apartment in a city under curfew, a day expands from early Spring to late Summer. A couple's longing to start a family is shaken by a pervasive feeling of uncertainty.