From the mid-1960s onwards, a series of short films by foreign directors began to appear, all of which spoke in French or English and had a strong international circulation at festivals, on television, and at events. Jean-Noel, Pascal-Angot, and Jean Leduc were three of the most popular. As researcher Maria do Carmo Piçarra explains, these supposedly foreign views of Portugal were actually covert propaganda by the regime, which indirectly financed these films and sought to reproduce the idea of soft, Luso-Tropicalist colonialism. Le Portugal d’outre mer dans le monde d'aujourd'hui is a film that defends the Estado Novo slogan, "From Minho to Timor, we are all Portuguese".

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