ARTS 4 People and Earth
As part of the “ARTS 4 People and Earth” project, five films were made that delve into the relationship between human beings and society with the environment and nature and with the climate emergency from different perspectives. Each film encapsulates a unique story and narrative, but they all share a common thread: the Serra da […]
The Bio Estrela Project
Forest fires are threatening to destroy one of Portugal’s last natural regions, the Serra da Estrela. If the fires continue, Portugal will lose more than the trees it burns. It will lose the generations of history and tradition kept alive in the farming communities and villages that survive and live off the forests. Young people […]
Loving the island
This was my destiny and I have to keep going until the end.” For more than 30 years, fisherman João Alfredo da Silva, 63, has dedicated his life to collecting waste from the Billings reservoir, one of the most important water reservoirs in São Paulo. Focusing on his work and personal life, the film explores […]
Big Bang Henda
Tearing down statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. He takes us on a journey through his creations and reflections, which are at the forefront of anti-colonial thinking, urging […]
Camorim
Camorim is an urban quilombo located near Barra da Tijuca, an upper-middle class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is made through the eyes of four quilombolas who reveal their desires, memories and important discoveries about the place where they live and resist.
Peas
A portrait of the people who work the land in Ervilha, a private plot left abandoned in one of the richest areas of Porto: Foz do Douro. Ervilha faces the same threat as our world: being destroyed in the name of progress. A new avenue is being planned that will destroy an area that feeds […]
Coast
One winter’s night, the sea once again threatens the apartment tower where two neighbors live. The next day, their children come to pressure them to leave everything behind.
MESOkOSMOS
A human body moves in nature. Body kinetics mixed with creative contemplation based on the narrative syncope of an ecology of relationships, existentialism and philosophical thought converted into cinematographic language. How can we find in the image the codes that necessarily aggregate the relationship between the human-animal-ontological and nature-essence?
Migratory movements
Pedro Paniágua recently arrived in Brazil and faces a daily challenge to survive. He plans to bring his family when he adapts to the new country. When a swallow lands on his house, he is torn between the routine of looking for a job and trying to save the bird. Everywhere he goes, he encounters […]
Night in a forest
In the 15th century in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented women from entering. But the hands of the living can’t control everything: in the invisible world, where night reigns and only souls illuminate the forest, women have built their kingdom, without walls.