Over 100 years old, the history of Portuguese cinema has been marked by great diversity, as well as by periods of great vitality – especially with the advent of modern cinema in the 1960s and the transition to democracy in 1974. Today, different genres and different generations of directors coexist in Portuguese cinema, as do entertainment films and directors’ films. Not to mention a strong tradition in documentaries. Threatened by other forms of entertainment and by endemic funding problems, the survival of Portuguese cinema seems more difficult than ever before. Nonetheless, never have so many Portuguese films achieved so much international acclaim or reached as many viewers as they do today.