Despite producing only around 15 feature films per year, Portuguese cinema has consistently won significant festival prizes. In 2018, awards for Portuguese films included Cannes’ Critics’ Week winner, ...

Fifty-year-old female helmer Teresa Villaverde is one of Portugal’s best-known directors, whose recent films, produced at four-to-five year intervals, have premiered in either Berlin or Cannes. “Colo” ...

With nine Portuguese films – including five co-productions – selected for the Berlinale, the country will have a record presence at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017. This comes at a pivotal time for ...

In a personal odyssey bucking the anti-arthouse trend in Portuguese cinema, acclaimed helmer João Botelho has decided to self-distribute his latest film, “Film of Disquiet,” based on “Book of Disquiet ...

“The Ongoing Revolution of Portuguese Cinema,” a month-long series now getting under way at MOMA, does more than just present extraordinary (and extraordinarily rare) movies that happen to share a ...

07/05/2012 - The “dramatic situation” of the Portuguese film sector has led 21 professionals to sign “an ultimatum” to Passos Coelho’s government “After 10 months of government,” marked by cuts and ...

The CineMar Portuguese film festival will offer free screenings in New Bedford and at Bristol Community College. The festival, which runs from Sept. 24 to 30, focuses on sea-themed Portuguese cinema.

This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the ...

While Portuguese features such as "Tabu" secure critical acclaim, subsidies to the local film industry remain on hold. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Portugal has again delayed putting into ...

The major source of funding for Portuguese auteurs is the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA). A government body funded by taxes levied on pay TV operators it offers financing to filmmakers without the ...

Rita Azevedo Gomes’ The Portuguese Woman opens with German actress Ingrid Caven—one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s muses—singing verses in German amidst ruins overtaken by nature. Caven is not the ...