First Round

In the Queluz-Belas area, on the Sintra Line, Edi, Yuri, and Válter are surrounded by crime: gangs, drug trafficking, robberies; situations that have become normal for them. Their time is divided between school and the time they spend together writing lyrics, listening to music, and walking along the Sintra Line. Under pressure from Jay Dogg, the leader of the RXR Boyz, the three boys will have to decide which side of the line they want to be on, ultimately having to make choices that could completely change their lives.

Pérola (39 years), a female lawyer, return to Angola, for her younger sister´s “Alambamento” (traditional Angolan ceremony where dowries and promises are exchanged between a couple) more than 20 years living abroad. On coming back, she realises that she does not fit in that environment anymore. The world that saw her come to life is now uncomfortable. In the beginning, she remains apart, watching all her parents do and say in a judgmental way, but as the party unfolds, Pérola starts to see the beauty of the place. That land and it´s People reveal a charm that she was not expecting and suddenly she understands that all her loneliness and emptiness she has felt all those years was only her home beckoning her back.

The daily life of the residents of the "Terraços do Glamour" condominium, on the outskirts of Lisbon, highlights their problems with defective apartments and spoiled facilities due to the developer's false promises.

The lives of two young people change when a new neighbor moves into number seventy.

On his first night in his ground-floor apartment, a man is woken up by a drop falling from the ceiling. When he goes upstairs, he discovers strange people and a new side to his personality.

Portuguese short film by João Ferreira