Terratreme Movies

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 portra...

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, da...

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world s...

On his deathbed, His Majesty Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories from the time when he dreamt of becoming a fireman...

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to surv...

Summer late afternoon in a Lisbon suburb. The concerns and expectations of a group of friends as they shift to a new stage of their lives.

Miracles still happen—or so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Looking again at a myth that haunts us, that of Sain...

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

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

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

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was s...

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 precarious...

Love, fear and anxiety. A couple spends their last night together, in Lisbon, before one of them leaves for another country. A romantic night gives wa...

Every year millions of tourists come to Portugal to discover the country, the people and the culture. Many come in contact with tour guides. They conv...

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 un...

How to represent an artistic intention without reducing it to a description? How to do it preserving the intentionality of the gestus in an ambiguous...

The forced repatriation of Azorean migrants from the US has resulted in tragic consequences for the deportees and their families. Leaving the islands...

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 project...