Manuela Viegas Movie Trailers

Far Away from Here Trailer (1994)

29 April 1994

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner.

Aspern Trailer (1982)

11 June 1982

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

Gestures and Fragments Trailer (1983)

22 February 1983

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Alex Trailer (1991)

16 February 1991

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Dead Man's Seat Trailer (1984)

25 October 1984

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered.

A Moura Encantada Trailer (1985)

17 December 1985

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “enchanted moura,” sparking a poetic journey that intertwines ancient Arabic folktales with contemporary rural life.

Step by Step Trailer (1990)

11 April 1990

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

Julião Sarmento Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection.

Hovering Over the Water Trailer (2013)

24 July 2013

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft.

The Policewoman Trailer (2003)

05 May 2003

A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.

Blood Trailer (1989)

07 December 1989

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested.

Dina and Django Trailer (1983)

29 April 1983

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family.

The Sound of the Shaking Earth Trailer (1990)

22 October 1990

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost.

Gloria Trailer (1999)

03 November 1999

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed.

Silvestre Trailer (1982)

06 May 1982

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

A Moeda-Viva Trailer (2024)

15 March 2024

Victor is a poor and submissive man who serves his general and the palace of an aristocratic family. Haunted by the red lips of his beloved Maria, he suffers unbearable hallucinations that lead him to the great precipice of death.

The Conversation Is Over Trailer (1982)

13 May 1982

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris).