With nine Portuguese films – including five co-productions – selected for the Berlinale, the country will have a record presence at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017. This comes at a pivotal time for ...

Despite producing only around 15 feature films per year, Portuguese cinema has consistently won significant festival prizes. In 2018, awards for Portuguese films included Cannes’ Critics’ Week winner, ...

In a personal odyssey bucking the anti-arthouse trend in Portuguese cinema, acclaimed helmer João Botelho has decided to self-distribute his latest film, “Film of Disquiet,” based on “Book of Disquiet ...

Fifty-year-old female helmer Teresa Villaverde is one of Portugal’s best-known directors, whose recent films, produced at four-to-five year intervals, have premiered in either Berlin or Cannes. “Colo” ...

07/05/2012 - The “dramatic situation” of the Portuguese film sector has led 21 professionals to sign “an ultimatum” to Passos Coelho’s government “After 10 months of government,” marked by cuts and ...

The major source of funding for Portuguese auteurs is the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA). A government body funded by taxes levied on pay TV operators it offers financing to filmmakers without the ...

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, whose ­career ran from the silent era into the digital age, has died at the age of 106. Oliveria made more than 50 films, including features and documentaries, ...

This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the ...

On May 14, ACID TRIP #2, an initiative of the Association for Independent Film Distribution, is dedicated to Portuguese cinema. It will screen three films selected by the Portuguese Directors’ ...

“The Ongoing Revolution of Portuguese Cinema,” a month-long series now getting under way at MOMA, does more than just present extraordinary (and extraordinarily rare) movies that happen to share a ...