Filmógrafo
The Night 1999
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
Fatal Sin 2013
A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.
Uma Vida Sublime 2018
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?
The Outlaws 1994
In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.
Boca do Inferno 2019
A shy Portuguese poet and an exuberant English occultist meet up in Lisbon in 1930. When the last one disappears, an English detective begins a thorough investigation: was it a suicide, as reported. Or a homicide? This is the real story of the brief meeting between Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley, and Hanni Larissa Jaeger.
Fado Lusitano 1994
Portugal feels himself a little country in the tail of Europe. Has a wandering heart, an adventurous spirit, an embittered soul and an obedient body.
O Antiquário 2022
Vicente was a mean old man, short of words. In his collection, he lacked the pyx of mercy he so admired.
Stowaway 2000
An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.
Landing 2016
Eggs 1994
The story of an egg trapped inside a frying-pan trying to escape its fate, symbolized by a huge spatula, determined to attack him.
Delicate Perception of a Ray of Light 2014
After years of writing, a young man decides to drive off in search of home. Could the same path be a part of someone else's story?
Cloak of Honors, The tale of the boy and the old men 2023
Valentine has only one: to go to Luxembourg to see his father. To achieve this, he allies himself with Justino, a wise old man with any answer on the tip of his tongue. A tale about a little apprentice and his demanding master.
Desta Água... 2010
We only understand some behaviour when we duplicate them involuntarily.
Magister 2019
Magister takes us on a restricted access trip. From a very intimate point of view, one follows the work of the director in the construction of a play. What really exists beyond this art form?
Religiosa 1970
A nun enjoys her bicycle.
In-Betweens 2001
There are many in-betweens in my film. The most relevant that are in the source material are essential to the film, they are their own Time and Space generators, they are what exists between each of the imagens.
Cães Marinheiros 2007
This Christmas I Wish For... 1998
X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.