Down The Mountain
Joaquim Marvão, the leader of the transhumance of Vilanova de Tazem, entrusts me with recording the descent of the herds, a centuries-old ritual in the Serra da Estrela. It’s the summer of 2022 and Portugal is facing a wave of devastating wildfires. Against all odds, Joaquim decides to carry out the descent, but something goes […]
The Last Sheperd of Sabugueiro
Dinis lives in Sabugueiro, at the foothills of the majestic Serra da Estrela mountains in the north-central region of Portugal. Passionate about both nature and animal life, this young high school student is dedicated and committed to pursuing the vocation of his choice: shepherding. He spends every weekend and school holiday tending his flock, guiding […]
Carved in Stone
In the interior of Portugal. Near the country’s largest mountain chain, the land once cultivated is being abandoned. Life flows to the rhythm of the wind as it sweeps through the mountains. Time seems to stand still between the tinkling of cattle bells and the calloused hands of the few who still work the land. […]
We are Two Abysses
Living alone in the highest mountains of Portugal, Carlos has spent years writing letters to his beloved late wife, suspended in a time that no longer exists. His solitary world is disrupted when a filmmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious lake, stumbles upon him. What begins as a chance encounter soon evolves into […]
Take care
Filomena lives alone in a rural village in the interior of Portugal and has just found out that she doesn’t have much time left to live. Her granddaughter Laura, a young woman in her early twenties, raised by her, shows up out of nowhere at her house. They share memories of childhood and youth, up […]
Down The Mountain
The Last Sheperd of Sabugueiro
We are Two Abysses
5861
5861 emerges as a documentary short film, in which the imposing natural beauty of the Serra da Estrela serves as a backdrop to reveal fragments of the life of Henrique Rebelo, a former driver in the Portuguese Colonial War.
The Mosquito Dance
Between the past and the present, an omniscient narrator travels through places, objects and people, while awakening memories disturbed by phantom gears. The result of collecting and interpreting life stories that unfold over the landscape of the foothills of Serra da Estrela, A Dança dos Mosquitos is a cinematographic essay that seeks to give stage […]