Histórias de Mulheres

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.

A devoted daughter, Bela, agrees to live with a magical snake to spare her father after he steals a rose from its garden.

Short documentary film by Lauro António.

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.

Filmed in April 1976, this work focuses on the production of ceramic figurines, typical of this locality, portraying the work of different artisans, men and women. Made for more than three centuries with local clay, the Estremoz figurines illustrate local beliefs and fantasies. The film also offers a historical, geographical and human overview, with ethnographic characteristics, of the region.