Basálticas

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of three with her mother and grandmother. Early Ana realized that girls and boys were given different tasks. Through her friendship with Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, Ana questions the world that is promised to her. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey that will take her beyond the horizon.

A group of queer people is kidnapped and dumped in the middle of nowhere. Are they left there to rot? Is this a concentration camp? Or a hunting ground where they are the prey? When you've got nothing left the only thing you can do, is find your way to resist.

A pineapple gets extremely offended.

A child overhears a whispered secret among the bushes; as he searches for its meaning, seemingly static images resurface, revealing a story never before documented: the forbidden hunger of a monarch.

Every Sunday, in the borough of Penha de França, Luísa organises a festive gathering at a local community hall. Miguel, a film student who recently moved to Lisbon, visits the space while getting to know a neighbourhood that feels oddly familiar to him.