Maria João Luís

Alexandra Lencastre stars as the title character who thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House. On her birthday, she throws a huge party in honor of her re-election and plans to control the entire world.

Insolent motorcycle daredevil Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida. Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of that, they meet.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

The story of Mariana, a soap opera actress, and a paparazzo named John who are involved in a romantic comedy.

In Lisbon, two women from different worlds -- a privileged architectural illustrator and a cheerful housekeeper from the city's Guinean community -- join together to save a young Guinean girl from ritual genital mutilation, in this sensitive and intimate second feature from immensely talented Portuguese director Inês Oliveira. (tiff.net)

Two stories about the greatest seducer of all time, Giacomo Casanova. (imdb)

Luisa, a Portuguese Supreme Court Judge, is given the Camarate File, the investigation of the accident that led to the death of the Portuguese Prime-Minister and his accompanists on December the 4th, 1980. She must decide whether the case goes to trial or is to be archived... (rui cunha - rcmgc1)