PORTO
COPYRIGHT: 2001
DIRECTOR: Francisco MANSO
FORMAT: Digital Beta
DIFFUSION: Digital Beta
DURATION: 2 x 52 minutes
TYPE: Documentary
VERSIONS: French, Portugese
PRODUCTION: Francisco MANSO, Lieurac Productions
PARTICIPATION: Centre National de la Cinématographie

Porto is a typical Portuguese provincial town, and proud of it. It is a perfect example of those towns, rare today, that encompass both a town and village atmosphere with its little streets and tiny houses, its friendly people, its popular festivals and its famous accent.
Porto is like a Russian Doll for it is made up of many small towns that seem to fit one into the other. Any visitor in a rush or looking for the obvious, will miss the intriguing complexity of this city. Porto is unlike any other Portuguese city.
Its beauty lies in the profusion of tiny houses dominated by the sober elegance of its many churches.