The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and...
Abandonment
When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...
Cidade Rabat
(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each...
Cidade
On his deathbed, His Majesty Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories from the time when he dreamt of becoming a...
Will-o'-the-Wisp
They walk in pairs; they go door to door and visit the homes of those who wish to listen. They discuss matters of faith, family, demureness, religion...
Latter-Day Saints
Miracles still happen—or so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Looking again at a myth that haunts...
13 Alfinetes
Angela and Jay survive by fishing for food on the wave-beaten volcanic coast. Their life as a couple is under stress and their existence is...
Far West
Sergio travels to Guinea-Bissau to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he...
I Only Rest in the Storm
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world...
Crónica Parisiense
Which language shall we use to tell the stories we have been told? In which language shall we write a declaration of love? Lisbon, Bairro das...
Terceiro Andar
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...
The Nothing Factory
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving...
Where I Grow Old
Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...
Dawn
Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave...
Idle Road
“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon,...
Campo
Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.
Setembro
The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...
Industrial Revolution
Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project...
An Aviation Field
Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new...
UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts
A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.
La chambre jaune