For two years, we filmed in an ancient convent of the seventeenth century, which houses the Conservatory of Music of Lisbon. Moved by our love for...

A couple in a car, things aren't going well.

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother...

A story about survival, belief in the physical memory of things, as if still-life was always part of the scientific possibility or of the nightmare...

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography professor, completely devastated. Aimlessly, he impersonates another man as a...

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political...

Full moon. Inside. Perhaps not alone.

Rute is a teenager like so many others: she goes to school, she has swimming lessons, she likes watching films and specially she loves to be online...

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect...

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop...

Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s daughter...

By instinct, he covers the flame before him. The fire consumes tears and fever, little by little. Only then the sorrow begins. A cold wind sweeps...

Before and after a kiss

The director takes us on a journey through the Portuguese continental and maritime borders, oriented by a map of Portugal. A year of pictures that...