Bernardo Lopes

At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure the situation. In the centre of it all, a mother awaits her son's body. How can life cease to be when in nature there is an enduring renewal?

Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.

Cesar is 'the boss', the one everyone hates, the one some flatter and the one nobody tells the truth; the great successful businessman is on the edge of the precipice. One night his actions crumble down, his partners betray him and his wife kicks him out of the house. Entrenched in his office, he tries relentlessly to recover his company and his life. But he will not do it alone, César will find a very special ally, Ariana, the cleaner of the night shift.

From the shores of Malta, a pioneering journalist from Gaza, Qassem, contemplates his experiences as a political prisoner and his painful decision to leave his homeland.

Pedro is a solitary writer who decides to embark upon an imaginary disorientation in order to get to the central idea for his next novel.

Lisbon is the paradise lost where Eva finds herself imprisoned to an unwanted pregnancy.

During his birthday, Ivan undergoes the consequences of the choices he has made through his careless adolescence.

One summer night, a teenage girl sneaks out of her house to meet a boy at a party. However, when she finds him, he is strange and distant. That same night and at that same party, a boy is intercepted by an unknown girl, who claims to know him.