STRATA INCOGNITA 2023

STRATA INCOGNITA, is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and a somatic archive of crimes, memories and myths.

Computational Compost 2023

“Computational Compost” addresses the environmental impact of data storage and proposes a synergy between technology and ecology. Humans and artificial intelligence produce so much data that soon there will be no capacity to store it; we are accumulating infinite information with finite resources. The film invites reconsideration on the relationship between data storage and collective memory, highlighting the urgency of critically rethinking narratives of the digital future.

In June 2019

New short film by portuguese director Henrique Brazão

Colossal Youth 2006 ( 7.271)

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

In Vanda's Room 2001 ( 6.857)

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

The Ditch 2011 ( 7.12)

The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.

Sandy LaPalissé 2021

A young wannabe NASCAR driver wanders a scrapyard, slowly breaking down with his surroundings.

Mask of Malcolm 2023

After years of internet-based solitude, Malcolm decides to take a swing at dating in the real world. What his date doesn't know is that he may be armed.

Martyr: One Step Away From the Dead 2021

In a small village in the interior of Portugal, living one step away from the dead holds unimaginable secrets. The film tells us the story of an old couple who saw the whole neighbourhood turn into a cemetery.

The Forest of the Lost Souls 2017 ( 5.3)

The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.

Almas Penadas 2013

Zé Manel is the Manager of "Almas Penadas", probably the worst band in the world. A movie of his delusion of becoming famous.

Videoclube 2014

On a spring night of 1999, two teenagers set out in an adventure to save the VHS.

Norman Mailer: The American 2012 ( 7)

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the bookshelves and NY Times best seller list to Mailer the social critic, family man, filmmaker, and lover. Here's a look into the life of a complex, intellectual, working class hero. With never before seen footage of Adele Morales Mailer's startling revelations after being stabbed by her husband. Featuring unseen footage and interviews from wives and lovers, enemies and admirers, his children and the man himself.

Bicurius for Tokens 2015 ( 10)

PXNDX - Loneliness Symphony 2007

First live album of the Mexican band PXNDX, recorded at the Auditorio Nacional on November 25, 2006.

Quarantine 2021

A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.

Um Beijinho 2024

A woman, who as a child exchanged kisses as if playing a game, remembers, now elderly, the night she killed her love with a little kiss. As an analogy, she says that she caught a rare and special blue shrimp and took it to her fishbowl. Young, she fell in love with a boy after a night of drinking, and questioned the relationship she had with the love of her life. Between memories, it is not understandable what happened, what was or wasn't done, nor what she wanted. At the end of the night, she went to bed next to her boyfriend, but in her dreams she confessed and woke up alone. As an elderly woman, she still experiences this loneliness, and ends the story saying that the water in the fishbowl was not good, and the shrimp died.

Blatta N/A

Mechi, a teenager obsessed with social media, becomes viral thanks to Santo, an old man who seems to want nothing in return.