Little known outside of his native Portugal, Paulo Rocha was one of the foremost figures of the Cinema Novo movement that blossomed in the nation at the beginning of the 1960s, a time that found Portuguese filmmakers absorbing the lessons of Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague, and exploring new subjects and styles of storytelling. While Rocha died in 2012, his influence continues to be felt across Portuguese cinema, not least in the work of Pedro Costa, who oversaw the two restorations grouped together here.