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Tomás Paiva Ferreira

Born October 26, 1998 · Coimbra, Portugal (age 27)

Tomás Ferreira is a Portuguese film writer-director. His passion for writing soon developed during his bachelor degree at Lisbon Theatre and Film School, where he matured his storytelling voice through specialization on Screenwriting and Editing, before going onto his first director endeavors, during his Masters in Film Directing at the University of South Wales in the UK (Cardiff). Tomás wrote, …

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FATE

Alex is a young woman diagnosed with an incurable illness. When a party is thrown for her by her best friend Jordan, seeing it as a chance to say a last goodbye, Alex inexplicably leaves overwhelmed. We follow Jordan as she finds Alex on their favourite nature hideaway and tries to understand her friend's reason for seeking solitude.

In a House, At Night

In a House, At Night · 2023

In a House, At Night

MovieDramaHorror

On Halloween night, in a women’s shelter, 7-year-old Lynn sulks about missing her old house and dares to leave her mother’s bed in a tantrum, hurting her. Separated and alone, the young girl re-encounters fear as witness of the asleep victims' nightmares, while Alice, her mother, dangerously ponders about calling back her husband so to give Lynn her family again…

Coming and Going

Coming and Going · 2024

Coming and Going

MovieDocumentary

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the love for a home where one grew up and yet made by a grandmother missing another life, in another house, in another country.

Away in Silence

Away in Silence

Away in Silence

MovieDramaComedy

Julia, an impaired elderly lady left to take care of her grandson as her daughter goes to work, faces a big decision when accidentally dropping her grandson’s only edible food: help the starving toddler using her new crutches to find food outside or in her selfishness, refuse to use them out of shame.

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Alex is a young woman diagnosed with an incurable illness. When a party is thrown for her by her best friend Jordan, seeing it as a chance to say a last goodbye, Alex inexplicably leaves overwhelmed. We follow Jordan as she finds Alex on their favourite nature hideaway and tries to understand her friend's reason for seeking solitude.

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In a House, At Night

In a House, At Night · 2023

In a House, At Night

MovieDramaHorror

On Halloween night, in a women’s shelter, 7-year-old Lynn sulks about missing her old house and dares to leave her mother’s bed in a tantrum, hurting her. Separated and alone, the young girl re-encounters fear as witness of the asleep victims' nightmares, while Alice, her mother, dangerously ponders about calling back her husband so to give Lynn her family again…

Editor

Coming and Going

Coming and Going · 2024

Coming and Going

MovieDocumentary

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the love for a home where one grew up and yet made by a grandmother missing another life, in another house, in another country.

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Away in Silence

Away in Silence

Away in Silence

MovieDramaComedy

Julia, an impaired elderly lady left to take care of her grandson as her daughter goes to work, faces a big decision when accidentally dropping her grandson’s only edible food: help the starving toddler using her new crutches to find food outside or in her selfishness, refuse to use them out of shame.

Editor