Isabel Abreu

Sandro Aguilar's haunting, formally ambitious debut immerses the viewer in a series of uncannily potent scenes, and signals the arrival of a striking new talent. (BFI)

Paulo looses his job after denouncing an accident at the construction site where he works. His relationship with his wife is getting worse, day by day...

Well-intentioned small-town values run headfirst into corporate determination in this offbeat culture clash comedy.

Five characters meet in a esplanade, beggining a journey trought their lifes. "Assim Assim" ("So So") its a movie about relationships, about what we want for our lifes, and what we can't achieve. Tells the story of different couples, connected somehow with each other facing different problems. Between good and bad relationships, love and obstacles, anything can happen. (imdb)

Everything threatens to crack and yet this devouring march happened long ago in the past. There is no moaning in the room next door, the wind has stopped blowing on the stairs, the air particles throw themselves against each other, but it's only void against void. (Mubi.com)

In the beginning was the end: a funeral, a crashed car. Gradually we see signs of extreme violence, which reveals an absence. Rumors are heard, nightmares of a child. An atmosphere of apathetic despair gradually forms. We enter a kind of 'zone', a place out of the world, a non-place, a limbo close to post-apocalyptic. (Curtas Vila do Conde)

Susana, a sociology student, interviews Catarina, a woman arrested for killing her husband. Catarina was a victim of domestic violence who decided that everything had to come to an end.

A pagan tradition from the interior of Portugal leaves painful marks on a group of teenagers. Twenty-five years later, when they reunite, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in. (imdb)

Dialogues with Leuco are short dialogues between divine or heroic figures from Greek-Roman mythology. Each dialogue deals with destiny, life and death, sacrifice, suffering, memory and desire, time and place.

A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's. (imdb)

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and cowardly character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfred Jarry's play.

A couple's tropical getaway for their 20th anniversary takes an unsettling turn when vaccine side effects cause strange symptoms.