Movies: Ana Brandão

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal....

Letters from Angola is a voyage into a forgotten past where several stories intersect - that of Angolan-born filmmaker Dulce Fernandes and those of the Cubans who fought in the Angolan war. A journey through today's Cuba, the film uncovers the lost c...

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives....

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events....

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night....

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life....

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition....

An illustrator watches and draws sunbathed women who sing as part of their everyday. The film explores the relationship between drawing and cinema in the director's creative process, emphasizing the representation of womanly strength and the life of ...

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black scre...

...

Ana is a child, girl, adult, tall, fat, thin... Ana is the part of all of us that once in a while wakes up without knowing who she is. That conscious amnesia that propels us to travel, question, look without tiring even though it might not be clear...

...

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago....

Esther receives an anonymous diary, written 20 years ago by a young girl in hospital. The girl’s story resonates deeply with Esther, who is still suffering from a recent break-up. Supported by her best friend Elena, Esther becomes obsessed with findi...

In far away Paraguay, there was a young man ... who in his heart had an empty meadow." This is the theme for a musical film in animation, where the director plays exemplary with screens, guns and money, between narrative and abstraction. Chagall, Pic...

...

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight....

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would...

...

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil...