João Matos Movies
- 2022
Will-o’-the-Wisp
Will-o’-the-Wisp6.32022HD
On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a...
- 2024
Astrakan 79
Astrakan 7902024HD
1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...
- 2017
Where I Grow Old
Where I Grow Old5.52017HD
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving...
- 2023
Wolf and Dog
Wolf and Dog6.12023HD
Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of...
- 2024
Clandestina
Clandestina02024HD
In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...
- 2014
Trading Cities
Trading Cities52014HD
This film tries to make a silent record of the arrival of an economy of scale, its flows, and its effects upon the transformation of an...
- 2023
Dry Ground Burning
Dry Ground Burning6.72023HD
Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...
- 2017
High Cities of Bone
High Cities of Bone6.32017HD
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing...
- 2017
The Nothing Factory
The Nothing Factory6.22017HD
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...
- 2018
Milla
Milla4.92018HD
A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.
- 2024
Far West
Far West02024HD
Angela and Jay survive by fishing for food on the wave-beaten volcanic coast. Their life as a couple is under stress and their existence is...
- 2024
Cidade Rabat
Cidade Rabat02024HD
When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...
- 2016
Ama-San
Ama-San7.12016HD
A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...
- 2015
Kazova
Kazova02015HD
4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.
- 2015
Maria do Mar
Maria do Mar6.52015HD
It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother...
- 2023
Tommy Guns
Tommy Guns2.52023HD
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...
- 2019
Alva
Alva4.82019HD
Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...
- 2022
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After82022HD
From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...
- 2011
The City and The Sun
The City and The Sun4.32011HD
A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...
- 2021
Jack’s Ride
Jack’s Ride52021HD
At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he...