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A Portuguese production, the psychological thriller horror movie Amelia’s Children had its premiere at the MOTELx Lisbon Horror Film Festival last year, then received a theatrical release in Portugal last month. Now Magnolia Pictures is gearing up to give the film a VOD and limited theatrical release in the US on March 1st – and with that date just one month away, we’ve got a trailer for Amelia’s Children embedded above.

Written and directed by Gabriel Abrantes, who previously made the comedy Diamantino with Daniel Schmidt, the film has the following synopsis: When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward...

“Lovers on Borders” is the first-ever co-production among Japan, Portugal and USA, and its 132-minute version has already screened in Portugal, Japan and Sao Paulo Film Festival in 2018. Atsushi Funahashi recently created an international version trimmed down to 123 minutes, which deals with a number of sociopolitical issues through a story of revenge that takes place in two different periods.

The first axis takes place in Japan in 2021, just after the Olympics and ten years after the after the Fukushima catastrophe. Shiro is a Brazilian-Japanese musician who works in a factory in Japan and dreams of opening his own shop of selling guitars. Along with his girlfriend, Mariana, which he met while in Portugal, they also perform fado songs, live in a club. Shiro is pretty close to securing a loan from a bank to open his shop, right around the time when the financial issues Japan faced after the disaster result in many layoffs,...