Portugal LGBT Feature Film, Shorts and Series
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- DirectorReinaldo FerreiraStarsAlves da CostaFernanda Alves da CostaAlberto MirandaPeixe-de-Espada (literally, sword-fish), a retired Army colonel, his wife and nubile daughter are spending their holidays at the Palace Hotel, in the company of a lady doctor, Doctor Pilulas (literally, pills). He tells tall-tales of his African adventures, and she finds ways to promote the excellency of the pills of her own fabrication. To spend some time with Gabriela, his girlfriend, Rito appears disguised as a woman, pretending to be the new post-office operator. Desguises will come and go, and all ends well after a turmoil of twisted plots.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsCarmen YazaldeAnne LibertAlberto DalbésLuisa visits her dying mother at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaKarra ElejaldeCatarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsInês de MedeirosIsabel de CastroBruno LeiteA story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first "stone in his pocket.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsJoão Rui Guerra da MataEduardo SobralChico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing "Happy Birthday" to him on his answering machine. When sexy boy Joao wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsMiou-MiouCarmen MauraMarthe KellerFive women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsLuís Miguel CintraJoana BárciaIsabel RuthIn Lisbon, during the feasts of St. Anthony, the cross breeders of politicians in black shirts and transvestites all dressed in pink. An exuberant allegory of freedom against dictatorship.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsMarco D'AlmeidaAdriano CarvalhoCarla ChambelMozambique, 24th of December 1969, a Portuguese army patrol return to headquarters bringing in a prisoner. A few hours later, he is found dead in his cell. Who killed him? and why? tensions grow, while an attack to the headquarters is under way...
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsFilipe DuarteMaria d'AiresTomás AlmeidaRicardo is a drag queen. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of his sister and, mostly, of his nephew Vasco, who has Down syndrome.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsChandra MalatitchJohn Jesus RomãoIvo BarrosoA transgender woman tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. Struggling with a young male lover and a problematic son.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsBeatriz BatardaVirgílio CasteloDébora MonteiroA psychiatrist married to a financial executive is intrigued by a young call girl prone to panic attacks and they begin circling each other.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesJoão Rui Guerra da MataStarsCindy ScrashJoão Rui Guerra da MataJoão Pedro RodriguesTwo filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in Macao - have a dialog with the memories of the East built by the codes of the cinema and the literature - memories lived on a featured reality-, creating a testimony which tries to raise the veil on the past and the present time. A personal album of physical and emotional geography, structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of the history challenges the reality.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsJoaquim PintoNuno LeonelSerge DaneyJoaquim Pinto, who has been living with HIV for more than two decades, looks back at his life in cinema, at his friendships and loves, at the mysteries of art and nature - while undergoing an experimental drug treatment.
- DirectorPatrícia SequeiraStarsAna NaveAna PadrãoFátima BeloFollowing Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. That long night becomes a maze-like journey through their interconnecting friendships, where each reveals herself as it was the last day. On the eve of the burial, the talk is about life and a friendship that survived it all. But will this friendship be able to survive death?
- DirectorVicente Alves do ÓStarsRicardo TeixeiraJosé PimentãoRaquel Rocha VieiraIt's the summer of '75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
- DirectorJorge PelicanoStarsEulália AlmeidaFostter RivieraFilomena GiganteEulália, a conservative 65-year-old mother, finds out that her son who emigrated to Germany became Fostter Riviera, the internationally awarded first Portuguese gay porn actor. From shock and disgust to desperately trying to understand him, Eulália embarks on an emotional journey that puts her values, expectations and perceptions to the test. With the computer and Facebook as her main sources of information and communication, Eulália's quest to get closer to her son makes her click on unexpected websites, meet unlikely people and challenge herself to see her son perform a live sex show in the annual Portuguese erotic fair.
- DirectorJoão MaiaStarsSérgio PraiaFilipe DuarteVictoria GuerraA biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesDaniel SchmidtStarsCarloto CottaCleo TavaresAnabela MoreiraA fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.
- DirectorFábio FreitasStarsNuno PardalPedro Sousa LoureiroSara Barros LeitãoGenesis 2:8. "And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed." In this story, João and Pedro live in this garden. One of them is about to leave because someone ate the forbidden fruit.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsAna Cristina de OliveiraNuno GilJoão CarreiraPedro and Rui kiss after a first-anniversary dinner; Pedro drives home, dying en route in a crash. Another pair of lovers, Odete and Alberto, split over her desire to have a child. Pedro lived in Odete's building. She attends the wake, stealing a ring, a last gift from Rui, from Pedro's finger. She behaves hysterically at the graveside, and later, wearing Pedro's ring, she insists she's carrying Pedro's child. Rui grieves as well, drinking too much and seeing Pedro's apparition. Odete's obsession intrudes on Rui, whose grief makes him vulnerable to her hysteria. Can this end well?
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsRicardo MenesesBeatriz TorcatoAndre BarbosaSérgio, a gay garbage collector, lives alone with his dog, leading a promiscuous lifestyle. Despite coworker Fátima's attraction, he rejects her advances, becoming obsessed with another man instead.