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Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...
The Metamorphosis of Birds
Cássia goes to sleep to the sounds of her alcoholic father and wakes up with the crow of her rooster bred for cockfighting. Her routine obeys...
Rinha
Ana is spending the holidays with her family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a...
Water Hazard
The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal,...
Fado
On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among...
First Age
Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes...
Bad Bunny
After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house,...
Ghosts: Long Way Home
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
From archival images, an improbable story is woven of a boy who couldn't stop crying, creating both floods and paradises.
Adrian's Tears
It’s summer and it feels like everything is melting. The body melts in sweat and the afternoon fades into endless nights. Weird dreams invade...
Between Light and Nowhere
Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two...
The Convent Gardener
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother...
The Left Behind
Portugal. 15th century. Monks build a wall around a forest to bar the entry of women. But in the world of the unseen, lit by their souls, women have...
Nocturne for a Forest
Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby...
Ruby
Everything starts in a dream in which I told my mother that I was going to look for the hundreds of children that my grandmother helped coming into...
Aurora