Ti Miséria
Ti Miséria has a supernatural power. When Death comes to take her, she traps her in a pear tree. But without death the world doesn't work. Those whose work depend on Death, want it to be freed from the tree. It is then that Death makes a deal with Ti Miséria.
António Campos
Casts & Crew
Joaquim Manuel Dias
Cremilda Gil
Also Directed by António Campos
"The festivities in honour of Sao Pedro,August 8th and 9th 1975. A complement to Gente da Praia da Vieira, isolated from the whole film material, because of its specificities and thematic unity." (José de Matos-Cruz)
This is a film supported by an association between the flow of the waters of the river and the flow of the lives of the men and women who work day to day, fighting for their survival. The title of the film states that the focus will be on the people who live on the banks of the River Lis, that is, the film offers us portraits of those who are from the banks of the River Lis. The work and poverty of the people living on the banks of the river run side by side, but also hope, as children have a special place in this film...
Armando, the only grandson of an old worker of Salinas de Aveiro, studies music in France and any news from him is scarce. The grandfather Abilio then decides to send him a letter announcing his death and Armando rushes to return.
A couple is pursued by the police and citizens of a city for the crime of having invented love. In every corner of the city, on the walls of the bars, on the doors of public buildings, in the windows of the bus, even that wall ruined through radio ads and detergents in the small shop window, where no one enters the lobby of the railway station which was the home of our hope of escape, a poster denounces our love.
The life of tuna fishermen and their families during the fishing season on Pumpkin Island in Tavira (Algarve). The documentary depicts their fishing methods and their return home after fishing. This was the last activity of "frame" or "almadraba" tuna fishery, before the camp was destroyed by the sea in the winter of the following year, in 1962.
Adaptation of the eponymous tale by Loureiro Botas.
The migration that saw the fishermen from the Vieira coast move inland, where they settled and formed the Avieiros communities. - Cinéma du réel
A borderland village of Trás-os-Montes, 27 km away from Bragança, Rio de Onor preserved - due to its isolated location - the old communitarian practices, of farmers and shepherds, that define it as an important and unmistakable center of this region.
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.