O ANJO DA GUARDA (The Weather Man)
In the city of Guarda, near Serra da Estrela, lives Vítor Baia, the Weather Man. Vítor Baia makes weather forecasts for mountaineers who prefer a method he developed himself to other more sophisticated ones. Victor Baia, a native and resident of Guarda, is a great expert on Serra da Estrela and has been mountaineering since […]
O PRÓXIMO PRINCÍPIO (The Next Beginning)
An ordinary late afternoon. A group of friends talk, laugh, live. A PET bottle runs empty. Someone, without a word, walks to the yellow recycling bin and drops it in. The sound of plastic hitting metal echoes for a moment. Then dark. Silence. It seems like an end. Time passes. The truck arrives. The bottle […]
MAÇOS E MARTELOS
An ancient gesture still resonates throughout the mountains of Portugal’s interior: the clash of mallet and hammer. A journey through the curves, workshops, and forges, capturing the rhythms of artisanal work in wood, iron, tin, and stone. From these raw sounds, an original musical composition was born. A sensorial journey where craft transforms into sound […]
O AVESSO DO MUNDO (The Lining Of The World)
There is a house in Minas da Panasqueira left behind at the end of childhood. There is a collection of pictures and objects from that place and time. THE LINING OF THE WORLD is a search for a lost time or the story of a film that was never made.
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