May
The documentary tells the story of Catia, one of the last residents of the self-built 6 de Maio neighborhood more than 30 years ago in Lisbon. Set at the entrance to their homes, a place of social exchange between neighbors, fears, relationships and conflicts with the institutions that seek to evict and demolish the neighborhood […]
Spring Tide
Women shellfish gatherers leave marks of their work in the mangroves, scars drawn on roots and branches. These cuts, silent witnesses to the collection of oysters, become a living calendar. For these women, each scar is a memory of the time that has passed, a count of the high tides since the last time they […]
Enxofre
In the stillness of the valley, Áurea and Umbelina spend their days watching over the cattle straddling the borderlands, where stories of wolf encounters intertwine with ancestral traditions.
DARU/N
Every morning, Lucila Mota de Souza, a 80-year-old indigenous healer, turns on the radio, contemplates the rainforest in front of her house and asks herself a question: What will happen when we die, the rainforest and I? As forest fires approach her house, she awakens an old dream.
Ribeiro de Baixo, Cabo do Mundo
Three outsiders arrive at Ribeiro de Baixo, a village on the northern highlands of Portugal, where mysterious night lights foretell the death of its inhabitants. In the silence of the valley, two women, Áurea and Umbelina spend their days watching over the cattle across the border, sharing tales of encounters with wolves and ancient traditions. […]
Caught in the Net
The deep sea constitutes the entirety of the ocean area situated below the 200 metres of depth, where sunlight does not reach, and it is the most inaccessible place on Earth for humans. Despite poorly knowing it, we are leaving a path of destruction on it with our trawling nets, motivated by an insatiable hunger […]
Colmeia (Hive)
Among the exuberant beauty of nature and the life built by man, there is a great relation, as well as a great difference.
Dog Alone
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
Songs of Metamorphosis or That Time I Was Incarnated as a Porpoise
Driven by the desire to generate life and realizing what was stopping her, it became inevitable to face the spiral of time. An abyssal record guided by a more-than-human relationship, through internal landscapes and authentic conversations in an attempt to re-establish the flow of Metamorphosis: jumping from being to being, as new ways of saying […]
Aurora
A small asteroid fragment falls into the backyard of Aurora’s house before the little girl goes to school. She is convinced that it was her father who sent the fragment in an attempt to make contact with her. At school, during a presentation on her parents’ profession, Aurora surprises her friends and teacher by telling […]