Movies: Francisco Vidinha

The Inquisition continues the persecution of Portuguese Jews, sending Visitador Sebastião Noronha to the city of Oporto. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares, decides to outline an escape plan....

“1618” is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews....

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal....

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Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent....

Short animation by Wendy Chandler....

In a society where the weak are oppressed, Sofia and Michael share their life stories through a wall...

A widow, a corpse, an undertaker, a young woman in a family way. Life and death meet in a funeral procession down a stairwell....

The final chapter of the Balas & Bolinhos saga....

A typical day in Porto's Cathedral, between tourists and the local community. A peculiar group of women grabs our attention......

The Nun's Kaddish is a short film that portrays a true story of inter-religious kindness when a Nun observes a Jewish ritual, raising the spirituality of the two faiths towards a higher ......

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Short science-fiction film by José Miguel Moreira....

We only understand some behaviour when we duplicate them involuntarily....

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Carlos sleeps rough in an abandoned structure made entirely with walls of glass. He’s well known, and liked, by the locals, but addiction throws a shadow over everything....

Sofia and Marco, a young couple, is visiting Castelo Branco at night. They start a conversation with an homeless who-s playing guitar on the street. While the conversation takes place Sofia starts suspecting that he is the father she never knew......