Found Memories

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and

Loquinha: Amor que Vira Memória

Margarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing

It is the European Middle Ages. Ana’s mother is out in the street and, for no apparent reason, has started to dance. Ana feels deeply humiliated by her mother’s unexplainable behavior. To make matters worse, her mother k

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive

Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.

I Knew You Were Sad B&N

Blondin Diop: A Senegalese Visionary

After being expelled from France for his subversive communist activities, the Senegalese Maoist activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop (1946-73) returned to Dakar, where he joined the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa

Evita, quien quiera oír que oiga

O Homem que Gostava de Zombies

The story of Eurico Bernardes Catatau, the precursor of Portuguese zombie films.

A Mulher que Viveu Três Vezes

Only using real or fictional found footage, the visual essay draws a portrait of a woman who, during the Salazar dictatorship, worked under pseudonyms in the Portuguese vaudeville theatre and in erotic horror films inten

El que con niños se acuesta...!

My Son Came Back to Disappear

After years apart, a woman living alone in the forest is troubled by the sudden return of her estranged son. Against her will, she must accompany him on his final journey.

Il faut que jeunesse se passe

O Homem que Fotografava Árvores

How long will it take for nature to take back its place?

O samba que mora em mim

du soleil, que ça existe

The film examines the temporalities through which the body forms, stores, and creates what we translate as the real. Focusing on longing, distance, and language, this text-based project explores the breadth of both langu

Jiwi Bewai - El árbol que canta

Don't Talk to Strangers

Set in a bespoke toy shop, Imanol Ortiz López’s new short film is skin-crawling nightmare fuel bathed in vintage Kodachrome transfixion, calculated to the microsecond, honed to haunt and mortify.

Lafesse, pourvu que ça dure... toujours !

La visita que no tocó el timbre

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

All the times we said goodbye

As he remembers a relationship with a younger man, he reflects on his insecurities, traumas, and his own sexuality.