Acácio de Almeida Movies

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten...

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

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her ‘friend’ Bruno during an argument. Rushing down the aisle, she meets...

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a...

A group of strangers comes to a monastery in Utah for a month-long stay. The monastery has two guidelines: no people-pleasing and no private...

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

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

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

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

A short film.