Feature
Past Event

Cidade; Campo

Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

Dir. Juliana Rojas / 2024 / 119 mins / Brazil / Portuguese
Feature
Past Event

Grand Tour

This Cannes Best Director–winning Asian odyssey spectacularly mashes up time and place, genre and form, to transport audiences somewhere sublime.

Dir. Miguel Gomes / 2024 / 128 mins / France, Japan, Italy, China, Portugal / Portuguese
Feature
Past Event

Malu

A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.

Dir. Pedro Freire / 2024 / 101 mins / Brazil / Portuguese
Feature
Past Event

Motel Destino

From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.

Dir. Karim Aïnouz / 2024 / 112 mins / Germany, France, Brazil / Portuguese
XR
Past Event

Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising

Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.

Dir. Lui Avallos / 2023 / 25 mins / Brazil, Portugal / English, Portuguese
Feature
Past Event

The Rye Horn

The 2024 winner of San Sebastián’s Golden Shell is an earthy tribute to motherhood and female power against overwhelming odds.

Dir. Jaione Camborda / 2023 / 105 mins / Spain, Belgium, Portugal / Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
Feature
Past Event

Toll

To pay for the conversion therapy she believes her gay son needs, a well-intentioned tollbooth operator turns to crime in this crafty drama.

Dir. Carolina Markowicz / 2023 / 101 mins / Brazil, Portugal / Portuguese