João Matos Movies

They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table...

New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon....

From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People...

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

Early Spring. A sonata, a train, a letter. Between his work as a flute teacher and the rituals of mourning the early death of his wife, Samuel faces...

Documentary on the work of Helena Almeida, a plastic artist that, since the end of the 60s, has developed a body of work in which she explores the...

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão,...

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta...

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and...

A film about a show and the issues the players face during their collective artistic work. Will we ever be able to leave our cocoons towards a...

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother...