Gonçalo Oliveira

Unholy unfinished project.

A journalist, in the diligence of reuniting informations to complete the biography of a missionary priest that travelled Africa, visits the village and the abandonned house in which he lived and died. Once there, he acknowledges that not even his scepticism will free him from the forces that persist there.

An essay film that focuses on rebuilding the idea of the Paralympic athlete through a historical revisiting of the Paralympic games. The archival images are accompanied by two voices of contemporary Paralympians that reminisce on their work as athletes and the way they and other people have dealt with their disabilities.

A girl runs away from home to be with her friend, a fantastic forest creature, while her parents desperately try to find her.

Dawn. Through the mist, morning's early light arises. But a stronger one stands out. It's a wildfire that spreads in the distance. From her home, in the top of the mount, a worried woman faces the flames. But it's not the proximity of danger that troubles her. Inside her house, her daughter sleeps, indifferent to the smoke that enters her room.

A short experimental film exploring the limits of language through the robotic reading of a poem.

An anxious young man struggles to accept his vulnerabilities whilst on holiday in an upper-class summer residence in Sardinia with his overtly masculine family.

A medieval tale about a soldier and his responsibility in announcing the tragic death of the King in combat.