Movies: Vasco Pimentel

A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his strategies to seduce the old philosopher, Socrates. He believes that the wisdom and knowledge he imagines Socrates ...

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband....

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa....

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag....

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air....

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace....

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to you...

Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara....

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who ...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violenc...

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy....

In Rio de Janeiro, people from the Mangueira neighbourhood follow the television broadcast on a big screen as the juries vote on each samba school. In 2019, Mangueira took to the Sambadrome a strong, bold samba of resistance to what’s taking place in...

Every year the Portuguese Army recruits thousands of Citizens to constitute the National Service. At 10 pm ligths are killed in the quarters. “Hey? Are you awake? Those guys are fucking you up, you hear me? I mean, I don’t know you man, but to me you...

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues....