Short Stories: Oh Stranger
Four slightly melancholy wanderings and meetings somewhere between the past and the present, in Portugal, Macau and Switzerland.
In this combined programme
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Angela
Successful young man allows himself to get dragged into bad things by his addict ex-girlfriend. Great acting in this convincing Swiss graduation fi
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Lisboa-Província
In this quietly poetic film, Maria do Céu returns beyond the Tagus to fertile, polyphonic Alentejo and a village she left forty-five years ago for
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Mak
Heart-wrenching, well-acted fiction about a Moldavian teenager and her baby. Her mother makes her give the child up. Cuts to the bone.
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O estrangeiro
Searching for what we bring with us and what we leave behind, The Foreigner is a personal and melancholic story of detection set in Macau.
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