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Basin of Souls 2024
Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists attracted by the cheap, disposable amenities that are popping up everywhere at once. Gentrification has decontextualized Portuguese culture, rendering the landscape uncanny. The Basin Woman, a symbol of the female workers of the historic Bolhão Market, is chased down by seagulls in the midst of this transcendent chaos.

Gardunha 2024
In a remote rural area, a woman on the run has a supernatural encounter surrounded by enigmatic sounds. As she immerses herself in that reality, she is confronted with unexpected phenomena that her rational mind cannot understand.

I Have Never Been This Close 2024
In a rural periphery in the midst of transformation, agricultural machines devastate the fields and the places are haunted by an eternal gloom. Out of the flames, the bells are reborn, invoking the presence of the community.

The Illusion of an Everlasting Kiss 2024
A November day in Porto, in a square where skaters jump up a flight of stairs. Three characters share a moment, which is divided into three subjective shots and which, without dialogue, are intended to characterize them emotionally. The idea of shared love is called into question.

Summer Rains 2024
A group of boys shatters the matriarchal memory of an old bedroom. In the face of impending danger, the older boys vie for leadership. As the evening progresses, they turn to violence. Chico, the young misfit, finds a tragic portent of desire.

Só Depois do Fim 2024
In an old discotheque in Porto, about to close, Fátima and Vidal meet for what could be their last dance.

A Draughtsman Illusion 2024

The Projected Girl 2024
Teresa is a surfer who lives a full love life until the day when, using an app that allows surfers to analyze the state of the sea in real-time, she realizes that something strange is happening on the beach. Intrigued by what she sees in the images, Teresa is faced with a decision that has been on hold for too long. At the same time, she realizes how she might not accept for others what she claims for herself…

Faces from Home 2024
In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.

Cura 2023
In the microcosm of a fragment of a resin sculpture, we observe fossilized eucalyptus leaves. The suspended still life, where we think we see specters of a world-image, is demystified by the sound of the tumultuous Cure.

Irreversível 2023
In 1982, in a village in the interior of Portugal, a young girl is taken by her grandmother to a fortune teller. The lack of money to pay for the service will cause a tragic outcome.

There are Monsters in the Dark 2023
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?

1/2=1 2023
Around a feeling of dysphoria, figures move within a dream processed in cyanotype.

A Lagartixa Cor de Laranja 2023
This is the story of an orange gecko. Although not very different, this gecko was excluded by its kind because of its color. Abandoned on a stormy night, the gecko finds shelter in a strange frog, in which he forms an unlikely friendship.

Oxymoron Life... 2023
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.

Vórtice Magnético ou Mecanismo de Dobra Fantasmática 2023
“Time is that which ends. Time is limited time experienced by a sentient creature. Sentient of time, that is – making adjustments to time in terms of what Korzybski calls neuro-muscular intention behaviour with respect to the environment as a whole..." - William S. Burroughs. As a time indexing device, it's capabilities are limited to a finite quantity of space over which it pairs images to time codes. However, a strange element disrupts the circuit, a ghost, a Thing, an imperfect double which overcodes the space that the device travels. So, a time accident specific to this technical apparatus is created where two different temporalities compete for the same space, the electronic limbo where a temporal chimera coalesces.

A Tela Sem Artista 2023
A young painter who faces her red sea, one of the conflicts that all artists face throughout their lives.

Litoral 2023
One winter night, the sea once again threatens the flat tower where Teresa lives. The next day, her daughter comes to pressure her to leave everything behind.

Alone With You 2022
Another day in the life of Julio, after the death of his wife, Camélia. Since that day his life has changed. He is an old man with a lot of life experience, with many memories and experiences. Today, Júlio decides to leave his wife's ashes in their little corner, the place where they were happiest.

In Your Early Morning 2022
In an unknown, natural and antagonistic place, the feelings of two lovers are haunted by the imminence of nightfall.

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