Ambar Filmes

A young couple kisses while waiting for the bus, completely oblivious to everything around them. The bus leaves, the day goes by, the kiss goes on.

The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the reflection for several years instead of returning it immediately. Carla offers her daughter the mirror and it will change their lives forever.

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

A film about the sculptor José Pedro Croft, while it is a journey to the origins of creativity. José Pedro Croft is a sculptor who constantly crosses borders, from drawing to installation, from painting to sculpture, in a constant and surprising game. It mixes color and form, the banal with the solemn, and transforms space by introducing unusual materials. The theme of the film is this constant passage from one form of expression to another, this constant game, introducing one more element: the look of the filmmaker.