João Matos Movies

The atelier of the painter Gonçalo Pena merges into his work. The space's occupation is divided between the solitary and silent moments...

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the...

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon,...

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and...

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...

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

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

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man...

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica....

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...

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother...

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

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

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each...