Joana Seixas

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.

What side is love on? Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their differing life views. Vera is a up and coming lawyer and Rodrigo an agronomy engineer. She's an urban woman who doesn’t do well in a rural environment while he loves the country and bulls, not too keen on city life. To make things worse, along comes Eduardo, Vera's boss and a brilliant but vicious lawyer. He hopes to prevent any possibility of reconciliation between Vera and Rodrigo and ensure that Vera keeps full custody of their son João. He wants this because, when he was deployed in Angola as a military, Eduardo swore to Rodrigo’s father João Maria, that he’d have his revenge.

Ana Margarida Rosa Lobo, a 70-year-old actress at the end of her career, discovers she has Alzheimer's and without explaining to anyone, she decides to end her five-decade marriage with Sérgio and move to another house to enjoy her lucidity while she can. This decision causes an upheaval in the professional and personal lives of her four daughters. Faced with this situation, the family will be tested to the limit and the four women change their way of looking at life, questioning their love relationships that they have also built.

A story with multiple plotlines, portraying the 24 hours of life in the beautiful city of Lisbon. It begins with three significant events: a wedding that is about to be cancelled, a crime, and the disappearance of a child. This plot centers on the lives of three sisters.

Luíza Albuquerque sees her life collapse after her daughter runs away from the altar. Shortly after, in an increasingly stifling relationship, she receives a fatal sentence: she has only one year to live, and no amount of money in the world, which she has accumulated – not always in the best way – will be able to save her. Faced with this revelation, she decides to be happy in the short time she has left, even if it means ruining the lives of her sisters and her own daughter.

The discovery of a dagger from the XIX century, with the localization of a great treasure, involves Pedro, a university history professor in the greatest adventure of all time.

Ten books, ten municipalities, ten women directors, ten TV-movies. The same universe: Told by Women. Comedy, romance, adventure, historical dramas, narrative content by great Portuguese-speaking writers and the vision of ten women directors from different generations and different creative backgrounds who portray a country that, in the last 100 years, finds itself towards freedom.

In Vale da Figueira, the Ventura prepare themselves for the first time to spend Christmas without the company of their children and grandchildren. But these plans change a few days before Christmas, when Francisco is taken to the hospital for emergency. This unexpected event will bring everyone inside the same house. Together, they renew their family spirit by accepting the changes that these days of coexistence have brought.

Maria is a simple woman who never had the opportunity to study, having started working early to help her family. She was still a young teenager when she left her mother's house with her brother Miguel. Everything in Maria's life revolves around Miguel, who is like her own son to her. Despite all the hardships she endures, which are compounded by her lack of education and characteristic innocence, Maria maintains a strong sense of honor and dignity and has never chosen the easy path in her struggle for survival.

After a lifetime apart, two childhood friends reunite, now widowed and elderly, in the village where they grew up. As they try to resolve past disagreements, they deal with their families' decision to place them in a nursing home. Knowing that they are nearing the end of their lives, the two friends strive to fulfill their old promise to stay together forever.

This fictional documentary traces a poetic cartography based on the journey of a theater group to São Miguel, Natália Correia's birthplace, and Lisbon, where she lived most of her life. It passes through Botequim, Assembleia da República, Hotel Britânia, Teatro Micaelense, Parque Terra Nostra, and so many other places once inhabited by Natália and now by these actors who help us to unearth the myths, ghosts, and pains born in the life and work of Natália — one of the most important figures in Portuguese culture, literature, and politics, before and after April 25.

The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression. To achieve faster results he performs illegal tests on the convicted mass murderer Iparrah. But when Thomas one day gets caught, he injects the unauthorized test agent itself. This turns out to have unexpected effects ...

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923. Through his search, he embarks on an epic tale that goes from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, in the magnificent Angolan south.

Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.

Two lonely people, Mário and Joana, both deceased in childhood, lost the ability to sleep. When fate brings them together, Mário manages to sleep again and leave their loneliness behind. Definitely?

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.

David is born in Portugal but lived his whole life in the US. At 24 is he accused of a crime he didn't commit and is deported to his native country.