João Matos Movies

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...

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...

Documentary on the work of Helena Almeida, a plastic artist that, since the end of the 60s, has developed a body of work in which she explores the...

Mirages have been reported along the Spanish coast. A young French woman travels to San Sebastián to observe these visual aberrations. There,...

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...

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

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

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...

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...

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave...

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each...

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

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...

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

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

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the...

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

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

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and...