João Matos Movies

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this...

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They...

Somewhere in the mountains, a man lives alone in a disappearing village. Wandering through the misty nature, interpreting among the walls of his dark...

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

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into...

1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

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

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...

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

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...

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...

At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure...

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

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

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

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