Maria de Medeiros

Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these and other characters prove to be woven together in ways none of them could ever fully understand.

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. (IFC Films)

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others (imdb)

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away? (imdb)

We all dream about what we'll be in 15 years time sometimes, it would be better not to know. In 1982, Vincent is 32-years-old, engaged to Laurie - without a doubt the woman of his dreams... (Unifrance.org)

Benito González works construction in Melilla and dreams big - of building the tallest building in Benidorm, a great phallic symbol of power, González Towers... (imdb)

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city's Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture. The city is at her feet, and even the Emperor Dom Pedro II comes to pay his respects... (imdb)

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.

Documentary about the love-hate relationship between filmmakers and film critics with interviews made at Cannes Film Festival.

A liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. this version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. An aged and powerful magnate is dying. He offers Laura, his young and beautiful mistress, a birthday gift and Laura much prefers that her mother, the Duchess, dies instead. To find her, GM engages the Detective.

Returning to Italy after a romantic getaway in Tunisia, Anna and Mara find an unexpected souvenir stashed in their luggage -- an Arab teenager named Anis. Nearly broke and a stranger to Europe, Anis finds himself adopted by the spoiled but good-hearted Anna, the heiress to a shoe manufacturing business... (frameline.org/)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship - which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar - and of two young army captains who were involved in it. (imdb)

The short classical film of Chantal Akerman, describes two girls in Brussels who run away from home. They chain smoke and obsessively repeat the words: "I'm hungry, I'm cold". What does fate have in store for two young penniless women in the big city? (iwff.net)

Don Rodrigo has two daughters, one legitimate, the other bastard, Silvia and Susana. He decides to marry off Silvia to his neighbour, a rich nobleman, with the aim of securing and expanding his domain...

A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school. (imdb)

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. (imdb)

Fascinated by actresses, Robert is undoubtedly the clingiest fan in French cinema. A handling agent by night in a large artistic agency, he devotes his days to "his" stars, whom he follows relentlessly, not hesitating to interfere in their lives. Working together on the same film set, his three favorite actresses discover one day that they have the same problem - with the same fan. They all decide to join forces and settle their score with him.

A journey through the Portugese city of Oporto, as seen through the memories of film director Manoel de Oliveira, who shows us the city that doesn't exist anymore.

Ana lives with her husband and daughter in a small town on the beach. One day, her husband tells her that he will need to get away for a few days. The peace that she hopes will not materialize.

Luca's father is a bank manager who doubles as a loan shark - and Bruno is heavily in debt to him. Luca is disgusted by his father's deadbeat double life and, we feel, shamed by his father's implied contempt for him.

O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. (imdb)

Based on the true story of an Ukrainian doctor who travels to Portugal to meet her Senegalese husband and gets stuck in the bureaucratic processes of the Portuguese immigration services.

Chicken with Plums follows the last days of a talented musician's life as he desperately seeks to replace his beloved instrumental, the violin. (tiff.net)

Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour François, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a suspect in the continuing investigation and is unsure of his own innocence although he has an alibi from his previous girlfriend.. (mubi.com)

The weekend is coming and the various inhabitants of France, from punkers to retirees, are heading to a place of relaxation: an old married couple spend it in a trailer, neighbors with their teenage daughters occupy a small house, and a stern father instructs his family how to put up their tent.... (kviff.com)

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search. (imdb)

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends "femme fatale" Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs. (imdb)

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly? (imdb)

Nicolas, French writer, brings his friend Edward, great British publisher, his latest manuscript. From the first pages, Edward is seduced by the new style but gradually a feeling of horror comes over. Nicolas tells the story of a crime committed thirty years ago that Edward was involuntarily one of the actors. (Allocine)

One of the greatest director and actor alliances of all time join again to bring the world a glimpse of the the final days of a God among filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini, after he went Salò.

Actress Maria de Medeiros directs a documentary to pay homage to another actress that she admires, Micheline Presle, whose career started in the early thirties. Evoking the renowned filmmakers with whom she worked, Micheline Presle mentions Luis Aramcheck, a director she worked with in 1939. Maria tries to track the mysterious director without ever imagining that this could in any way endanger her life (en.unifrance.org)

An apparently chaotic, yet always significant nightmare with countless fantastic plotlines inspired by real, imaginary and photographic memories of films from the silent era now lost.

A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply for the presence of Maria De Medeiros, the central two of the film are captivating. What spoils it is the stereotypical and under developed second characters and an overly wistful outlook. But I defy any man watching this film not to fall madly for Aimee and everyone will cherish the scenes between Aimee and Maurice. (letterboxd.com/film/lhomme-de-ma-vie/)

Summer in Paris. Fifteen-year-old Vincent refuses to join in with his schoolmates torturing rats or selling sperm on the Internet. He lives with his single mother Marie and finally wants to find out who his father is. His investigations lead him to a famous publisher with an obnoxious character. When he meets said publisher's brother Joseph, his life changes in a flash. (Berlinale 66)

A young poet's destiny is irrevocably altered when he meets his idol, the Nobel Prize author, Samuel Beckett, in a small country cafe.

A Brazilian western about Cabeleira, a feared killer living in the countryside of Pernambuco State in the 40's. (imdb)

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the "Big Z": Zimurgh Corporation. (imdb)

Hubert Wolfe, a successful author who hasn't written anything for 10 years, is living a life of lies. He uses a ghostwriter named Dany-a prolific writer known for his genuineness of spirit as well as his antisocial behaviour-to write his novels. When Dany's life falls apart and he is no longer able to write, Hubert turns to another writer, Quentin, a soft-hearted man with a pure soul. (imdb)

1962, in Algeria. The journalist Jérome Cartier is called into the ranks of the French army, where he meets his friend François. The latter is the victim of an attack by the OAS. Jérome tracks the culprits. (imdb)

Lisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman, and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again - but a trifle too late. (imdb)

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

In the 1960s, Spain became a home to hundreds of survivors of the Mauthausen camp. Isabel, a young Spanish woman, is one of them. She is looking for Skorzeny, Europe's most dangerous man, but she is not alone. (imdb)

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural, and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a chauffeur 26 years her junior. (imdb)

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow (played by the esteemed Maria de Medeiros), prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called 'Hovering Over the Water'.

In a city in ruins, a woman looks for her missing brother. Adaptation to the big screen of the Paul Auster sci-fi novel "In the Country of Last Things".

Laura lives in Vouzela with her husband, a lot older than her. When Nuno, her brother, visits her, she realizes that Laura does not have a happy life (imdb)

A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes. (imdb)