Saguenail Movies

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic...

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the...

Portrait of a time and a country through the plotless story of an unassuming couple, questioning seeming antagonisms that conceal mysterious...

In an empty theatre, a woman is watching an American film - "Ma's Sin" - which tells the weird revenge story of a middle-aged wife, driven mad by...

Porto 2001 project, made in the prison of Paços de Ferreira. Nuno Cardoso, the play director, develops this work with the prisoners during the...

A documentary view of the practices of popular culture in the most jubilant of the local pagan festivities.

From Jacques Prévert's poem “Petit déjeuner du matin”, Mau Dia experiences a dilation of the time in which the banality...

A film by Saguenail

In an enclosed space of a café for an entire night, a set of characters try to verbalize their thirst for love and their fear that love will...

We're at war. Every day, bombs explode. Everywhere. The terrorist attack is unstoppable. The enemy is invisible. And yet as weapons they are alike....

America is a legend, an idea. To rediscover the traces of such an idea within the reality of a city requires a transformation of this very city into...

An altarpiece and a portrait, whose composition obeys the digressions and ramblings of a handful of people, around their intimate relationship with...