Acácio de Almeida Movies

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

Drawing on a wide mosaic of texts from figures like Montaigne and Kafka, literary and philosophical fragments are used to illustrate and reflect on...

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most...

The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently....

A short film.

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

A man prepares an old ritual in a temple abandoned by its followers.

The film sought to portray a relatively unknown and isolated rural world and, through a highly politicized discourse, affirmed the genuineness of...