José Saramago

El Quijote desde la platea (2019)

How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago ...

José Saramago: Memorial do Convento (2011)

Documentary about the life and work of the writer José Saramago, with particular emphasis on the historical context and the importance of his novel "Memorial do Convento", based on archival images and testimonies by several personalities. ...

José & Pilar (2010)

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for c ...

José Saramago: Raised from the Ground (2008)

José Saramago, the Portuguese writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the greatest references in Portuguese literature. In this documentary, with the title of one of his most emblematic works, we are taken to cover part of his life. ...

Azinhaga (2007)

Santa María de Iquique, cien años después (2007)

A young writer moves to a new town on 21 December 2007. Among the moving boxes is a disc containing his father's legacy. One of these disks is the Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique Luis Advis Quilapayun interpreted by the group. The Cantata heard as a group o ...

The Biggest Flower in the World (2007)

Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry. ...

Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air (2007)

A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful building ...

A Meeting with Milton Santos (2006)

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the impor ...

Words of Truth (2004)

The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affec ...

Língua - Vidas em Português (2003)

Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world. ...

Janela da Alma (2001)

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link t ...

Saramago: Documentos (1996)

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life. ...

Last Sunday (2022)

The dawn is strange, with a harbinger of change. The next morning, Maria receives a mysterious visitor that leaves José disturbed and will lead her to re-signify her own destiny. ...

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (2020)

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portu ...

Ensaios Intermitentes (2020)

Enemy (2014)

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs. ...

Embargo (2010)

Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to ...

Blindness (2008)

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. ...

The Biggest Flower in the World (2007)

Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry. ...

The Stone Raft (2002)

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residen ...