Films
language-category Portuguese:
Balomania
With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
Sissel Morell Dargis / Denmark & Spain / 2024 / World Premiere
Eros
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
Rachel Daisy Ellis / Brazil / 2024 / International Premiere
God, Please Send a Whale
A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?
Julie Bezerra Madsen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
The Buriti Flower
Enchantingly beautiful hybrid film from the Brazilian forests about the indigenous Krahô people and their fight for freedom while the outside world tries to steal and destroy their territory.
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.
Inadelso Cossa / Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands & Norway / 2024 / International Premiere
They Shot The Piano Player
A film noir in colour that brings back the heyday of bossa nova in stunning animations and to a jazzy score, as it tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of one of Brazil's most legendary jazz pianists.
Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal / Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal & Peru / 2023
This is Ballroom
An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.
Juru & Vitã / Brazil / 2024 / World Premiere
Time to Gather
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
Sofia Bairrão / Portugal / 2023 / International Premiere