UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts

UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts 2024

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Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new constellation of desires, fears, and struggles. Entre a Luz e o Nada by Joana de Sousa, Sob Influência by Ricardo Branco, and Uma Rapariga Imaterial by André Godinho are three cinematic gestures that explore techniques and narratives from science fiction to horror, seeking new ways to view and imagine other possibilities. After traveling through various festivals, these films can now be experienced together, in a mutual exploration of mysterious worlds, unsettling dreams, and singular visions.

2024

Nobody

Nobody 2023

5.00

@nobody cams on social media under the virtual persona of a sweet and sexy anime doll. But the girl underneath the colorful costumes is scared to leave her apartment and doesn't have any friends.

2023

15'

15' 2023

5.00

In an increasingly virtual world, what are three rappers and a fan doing barricaded in a clothing store? If Andy Warhol were alive, he would say they are looking for their 15 minutes of fame, but what will we say?

2023

Adelaide

Adelaide 2018

4.40

In the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal.

2018

The Second Man

The Second Man 2023

5.80

Follows the trajectory of Miro, a worker who leads a simple life until a series of violent events shake his wife, Solange. He then decides to enlist in the Foreign Legion, based in France, to protect his family.

2023

Alma Anciana

Alma Anciana 2024

1

Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the elderly in an unstable world, seen through the eyes of their grandchildren.

2024

Lovefool

Lovefool 2024

8.30

Set in the romantic and multicultural city of Lisbon, the love story between a shy Brazilian man and a fearless Portuguese young woman is haunted by secrets from his past.

2024

Change

Change 2020

9.40

I was somewhere between the beggining and the end of life. After winter became spring, and summer became fall, and fall winter again. I always knew change would be constant.

2020

Under the Influence

Under the Influence 2022

1

Laura is on a vacation with her friends for the weekend in a luxurious and isolated house. The group decide to do a hallucinogenic drug and seem to become absorbed by their nature surroundings. However, after a strange encounter at night, Laura is having trouble facing reality.

2022

Fragile

Fragile 2022

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A group of disillusioned youths in Lisbon are consumed by the promise of the “club”. Irreverent, alien, and playful, the film takes the audience on a trip through the underground of Portugal's capital city as its young characters get high and unleash their unpredictable energy on the streets.

2022

Flying Carpet

Flying Carpet 1970

1

Ricardo is a teenager searching for a way out of a ruthless reality that traps him and everyone around him, preventing them from reaching for the stars.

1970

Moço

Moço 2020

8.00

Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.

2020

00:00 Midnight

00:00 Midnight 2024

1

An essay on love, friendship, sex, identity and art, led by the gaze of a group of young people who struggle with reaching adulthood.

2024

Trapstarz

Trapstarz 2024

1

Three youngsters from a small town dream of becoming the next big thing in the trap music universe.

2024

Eva

Eva 2019

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Lisbon is the paradise lost where Eva finds herself imprisoned to an unwanted pregnancy.

2019

Millennia

Millennia 2015

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A young woman struggles to maintain her fantastical Universe when her love goes sour. As she seeks rescue from her vices of money and sex - faith becomes her sole companion and she soon discovers the only form of salvation will require rebirth.

2015

Autoerótico

Autoerótico 2022

10.00

On a foggy night, a blonde woman unexpectedly haunts the path of two young men in a suburban park.

2022