Egas’ Ego 2020

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.

Snu 2019

The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.

Game of Checkers 2016

Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. The night becomes a long, mazelike journey through their interconnecting friendships, ultimately leading to deep self-revelations about life, themselves and a friendship that survived it all. But will this friendship be able to survive death?

Quero Dizer-te Adeus 2015

The life and times of Orlando Silva, the famed singer from the golden age of Brazilian radio.

O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte 2010

The Policewoman 2003

A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.

Antonio, a boy in Lisbon 2002

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Camarate 2001

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.

Three Palm Trees 1994

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.