Embargoed

A film about the incommunicability of two worlds.

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.

There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and the social power that has been denied to them. This film is a journey into the underworld of sex workers and their struggle for labour rights.

The documentary shows the academic movement and its several crisis by the players perspective and the way they contributed and involved themselves in the movement as students and Men. The main focus will be on the players and the academic leaders in this process during the 60’s.

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Documentary adaptation of the book "Labirinto da Saudade," a deconstruction of the Portuguese ethos from a philosophical and historical point of view, written by Eduardo Lourenço.

Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.

After the crisis came tourism and Lisbon's transformation. Alis Ubbo (Phoenician for safe port) follows the change in the urban landscape of the city in the last 2 years.

In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the operation code name "Angola" fled over 100 african students abroad towards freedom, amongst them several future leaders of african countries.

A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.

Shot in two of the Azores islands, Pico and Faial, between 2015 and 2016. The idea of this film happened by accident. Going back to the footage of a location scouting from a previous project, canceled years before, another hidden film was found. The power of Nature and the role of chance in the creative process build a narrative about life, friendship, cinema and the influence of the unexpected in artistic creation.