Beatriz Batarda Movies

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

Two people have a date in the evening.

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with...

Years after a sudden departure that left open wounds, Helena returns to the isolated coastal village where she grew up. Nestled between the...

Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A...

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film...

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the...

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and...