Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica

A story about generation Y, the era of individualistic and extremely competitive people, who believe their meant to be exceptional. A generation where the unrealistic expectations rarely match reality. The story revolves around a young adult who is subject to the same circumstances and above all else wishes to be recognized by truly memorable achievements. Mota says he has been touched by god and is going to write a book about everything. In the limbo between the real world and Mota’s conscience the journey begins. The narrative oscillates between action and inertia, writing and procrastinating. The book of everything assumes an identity crisis. Mota, as other of his age, is subject to social pressure of making it big. He becomes so desperate at the reality of his life that builds a parallel one. It’s a movie about the unachievable realization of the individual.

Vasco is exposed to his brother's extremist ideals, expressed through the National Socialist Black Metal genre. However, Vasco doesn't identify with the movement's nature and hides from his brother an essential aspect of his life, in order to avoid a fraternal break, while tracing the path of self-acceptance.

Alice, a woman with a fear of solitude and an exausting desire to change her life, develops an obsession for the doctor that accompanied her recovery after waking up from a comma. Between an over protective boyfriend and an undependable doctor, Alice faces a choice and the possibility of ending up alone.

Short animation film about the fear of singing in public

'Hey' is a short film by Gonçalo Oliveira and Leonor Cunha Ferreira

Andreia's arrival disturbs Ana and João's relationship and awakens dormant desires.

Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists attracted by the cheap, disposable amenities that are popping up everywhere at once. Gentrification has decontextualized Portuguese culture, rendering the landscape uncanny. The Basin Woman, a symbol of the female workers of the historic Bolhão Market, is chased down by seagulls in the midst of this transcendent chaos.

On April 1st, 2022, my grandfather passed away and i felt lost. I think my path changed when, some days after he passed away, i was offered a small VHS camera. "Moving Memories" is a visual journey that makes the viewer reflect on our momentary presence on earth and questions the nature of memory. Throughout this journey, we get to the conclusion that memories are more than just static photographs in our minds, they're alive and in constant movement, changing while we evolve as individuals. These memories have influence and help us to move on.

PATHOSFORMEL is an interdisciplinary work/film, both in form and content. Through scenes and episodes, a look at the historical past is interconnected, using figures from Greco-Roman mythology in order to reflect on the human condition.

In a rural periphery in the midst of transformation, agricultural machines devastate the fields and the places are haunted by an eternal gloom. Out of the flames, the bells are reborn, invoking the presence of the community.

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.

We are in the year 2043 and our existence is immersed in a sea of apathy. A reflexion about our evolution as humans.

A young man writing a motivation letter for a new job is interrupted by a longtime friend who appears with bizarre intentions.

In a remote rural area, a woman on the run has a supernatural encounter surrounded by enigmatic sounds. As she immerses herself in that reality, she is confronted with unexpected phenomena that her rational mind cannot understand.

Driven by will to give life and realizing the hinder it’s inevitable to face the spiral of time. An abyssal record guided by morethanhuman relations through internal landscapes and authentic conversationsto reestablish the flow of Metamorphosis: leaping from being to being like new ways of saying I.

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

In an old discotheque in Porto, about to close, Fátima and Vidal meet for what could be their last dance.

An essay film about a woman who does not fulfill her supposed biological purpose, thus seeking to redefine herself through a journey through her doubts, aspirations and insecurities.

Short film by Sofia Pinto

Unholy unfinished project.