João Matos Movies

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

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...

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica....

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

Somewhere in the mountains, a man lives alone in a disappearing village. Wandering through the misty nature, interpreting among the walls of his dark...

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this...

From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People...

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

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...

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man...

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They...

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and...

They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table...

A film about a show and the issues the players face during their collective artistic work. Will we ever be able to leave our cocoons towards a...

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...

New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will...

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

4 months after Gezi process the workers from Kazova occupied the factory.