A Bear Named Wojtek 2024

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.

They Shot the Piano Player 2023

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.

Easter 2023

Autobiographical documentary about an Easter vacation spent by the Ruivo’s family in the country town of Castelo de Vide, where the resurrection of Christ is traditionally celebrated with a “rattle” with a pagan resonance.

Something I Said 2022

Three women go on a road trip from Lisbon to the South of Portugal to meet the newest member of the family who's about to be born.

The Doctor's Wife 2021

When a doctor sees her wife going through depression, he comes up with all sorts of ways to cheer her up, but no matter how hard he tries, things just get more complicated.

Table 2020

A large group of people gather around a table for a meal. Food is served under a noisy, almost circus atmosphere. Gifts are made and congratulations are sung. At some point there are already those who sleep, who read, who date. The environment is increasingly fragmented. In the end there is only dirty dishes and silence.

Because This Is My Craft 2018

A film about the vortex of time. It’s also about childhood and how it marks us for life. It’s a film that speaks of the relationship a son has with his father. And of the many words never spoken because they’re written in one’s heart.

28 de Outubro 2018

From a primordial tree, in a primordial earth the primordial Being is born. Involved by a hostile world, this virtuous being in all its animal fullness is metamorphosing into an intelligent force destined to subject brute force.

Final Call 2017

Excess baggage, an old flame and new encounters.

O Campo à Beira Mar 2015

Something Important 2009

A man finds reasons to delay something important he has to do.

Sem Respirar 2004

The near future: Bruno is trying to win back his ex-wife. Under the pressure of her domineering mother and a new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is trialed and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he gets within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But that doesn’t stop Bruno, he practices holding his breath.

O Desalmado 2003

The odyssey of a man who became a hermit for ills of love and receives a pair of angel wings after defeating the demon.