Margarida Vila-Nova – MRQE

Cartas da Guerra

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1971, António Lobo Antunes’ life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.

P.E.

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her fathers house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.

A Corte do Norte

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.

O Fatalista

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho’s adaptation of Denis Diderot’s popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.

O Milagre segundo Salomé

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds.
Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country…

Corruption

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.