Movies: Mafalda Banquart

  • 2024
    The Worst Man in London

    The Worst Man in London (2024)

    The Worst Man in London

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    In the Victorian era of the late 19th century, Charles Augustus Howell moves through London’s art circles as the assistant of famous art critic John Ruskin. His skill at rising through high society lands him a close friendship with painter and poet D...

    The Worst Man in London
  • 2017
    The Forest of the Lost Souls

    The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017)

    The Forest of the Lost Souls

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    The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods....

    The Forest of the Lost Souls
  • 2023
    1618

    1618 (2023)

    1618

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    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
  • 2024
    UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts

    UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts (2024)

    UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts

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    Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new constellation of desires, fears, and struggles. Entre a Luz e o Nada by Joana de Sousa, Sob Influência by Ric...

    UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts
  • 2023
    Palma

    Palma (2023)

    Palma

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    Faced with the shock of an unexpected death, Sara finds herself trapped in a maze of pain, loneliness, and abandonment. As she travels through it, she seeks consolation in the justification of that fatality that shook her so much. But what he finds i...

    Palma
  • 2018
    Uma Vida Sublime

    Uma Vida Sublime (2018)

    Uma Vida Sublime

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    Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?...

    Uma Vida Sublime
  • 2019
    Our Consul in Havana

    Our Consul in Havana (2019)

    Our Consul in Havana

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    The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by gre...

    Our Consul in Havana
  • 2016
    The Room You Take

    The Room You Take (2016)

    The Room You Take

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    We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains,...

    The Room You Take
  • 2022
    Immaterial Girl

    Immaterial Girl (2022)

    Immaterial Girl

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    João is an immaterial girl, refusing to be anything other than what she wants to be, regardless of her age, gender or race. When Tiago looks at her it’s like she’s always a different person. Literally. But when their relationship becomes too real, he...

    Immaterial Girl
  • 2020
    A Luz de Judá

    A Luz de Judá (2020)

    A Luz de Judá

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    “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....

    A Luz de Judá
  • 2013
    M is for Macho

    M is for Macho (2013)

    M is for Macho

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    M is for Macho
  • 2016
    Post-Mortem

    Post-Mortem (2016)

    Post-Mortem

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    Edgar is a jaded photographer. One evening he witnesses a murder. The culprit escapes. Edgar, instead of helping the victim, becomes mesmerized by the expression of pure terror in her face....

    Post-Mortem
  • 2015
    Dorme em Púrpura

    Dorme em Púrpura (2015)

    Dorme em Púrpura

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    Dorme em Púrpura