Mariana Silva

Set against the glistening backdrop of Porto’s Douro River, "de Ouro" is a quiet, three-minute drift through a world often overlooked. Captured in a grainy 5:4 frame that evokes the feel of a memory, this observational short film invites the viewer aboard a simple river cruise — not for grandeur, but for the fleeting poetry of sunlight on water, a breeze through aged stone. More impression than narrative, "de Ouro" gently reminds us that the smallest moments — like the river’s golden glimmer — are often the ones that stay with us, etched not in time, but in feeling.

In the quiet of their home, someone is preparing a meal, accompanied by something mysterious.

A satire of the film world, a film crew tries at all costs to make an advertisement for an emerging beverage brand, "Dlize". Between a lack of talent and professionalism, a director who doesn't know what he's doing, a star actor who has succumbed to alcohol and a bad lifestyle, and an entire crew on the verge of despair, Hélder, the assistant director, and his production assistants Maurício and Emanuel, try to keep the ship on course and manage to film the advertisement.

Nowadays the art of baking bread has become so common that it lost the charm of its confection. This documentary presents a bakery that has never lost the essence or taste of producing this essential good. From distribution to production, gestures can be observed that, in the mere details, allow us to appreciate this ancient art in a way that is not common these days.

On a farm in the north of Portugal with a vineyard surrounded by a forest, where the past and present mix, a mother and a daughter, in a fight for reconciliation, try to overcome the anguish that still torments them. Will there be a change after this fight?