João Bénard da Costa

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their ...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the ...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the ...

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of the ...

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. ...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Manoel de Oliveira’s autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of ...