Tomás Furtado de Melo

A grieving Persian-Kurdish mother and her American daughter head to the scenic Azores on conflicting agendas, but their clash of perspectives turns into a path toward healing under the influence of a handsome local guide.

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of three with her mother and grandmother. Early Ana realized that girls and boys were given different tasks. Through her friendship with Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, Ana questions the world that is promised to her. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey that will take her beyond the horizon.

Forget everything, or recover memory and remember. Let yourself fall and stop, or return to life and start again. Adrift, lost face-to-face, two women confront their fates. Is there not just one thing worth saving? Without hesitation, the desire to live, that rebellious fury that takes no heed of risks. And how do you save a world where poetry has disappeared?

A group of queer people is kidnapped and dumped in the middle of nowhere. Are they left there to rot? Is this a concentration camp? Or a hunting ground where they are the prey? When you've got nothing left the only thing you can do, is find your way to resist.

In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.

An unfinished and potentially lost film from 2019 based on a story that would eventually become "Cecília and Lourenço".