Diogo Lopes

‘Linhas’ follows a 19-year-old, Manu, who is torn between school, his family and a world that offers him money but robs him of his future. Marked by his mother’s absence and a distant relationship with his father, he finds in his sister, Cíntia, the only safe haven in his life. Amidst silences and secrets, ‘Linhas’ is a story about family, identity and the winding paths of life.

When an old fan breaks down in a crowded attic in Marseille, the sweltering heat forces a middle-aged Portuguese man and a young Cameroonian man to work together to fix it, despite not sharing a common language.

An anxious boy, waiting for a friend to play chess with, finds a girl who listens to him and tries to calm him down.

One hot night, a child captures the ‘beast’ that has long haunted the chicken coops in their village. The next day, racked with guilt at having hunted it down, she joins her cousins to save it from the adults’ punishment, but hides the fact that it was her hand that wounded it.

In a tradition dating back to the dawn of humanity, Costa da Caparica was born through the Arte-Xávega. Today, a community of fishermen adapts this fishing technique to the modern world, in a choreography between machine, waves, and Man.

A group of young teenagers gathers in a forest to camp before the school year ends, while something they don't understand seems to be circulating the place.

Two revolutionaries arrange a clandestine meeting to convince a factory worker to join them on a strike.

In the week leading up to her company’s premiere of Giselle, Lena, the understudy to the lead role, struggles to meet the demands of the performance. Seeking escape, she spends a night with friends on the outskirts of the city. As a rave gradually transforms into a forest haunted by echoes of the ballet’s second act, Lena confronts a version of herself still trapped beneath the spotlight.