Cinematography: Rui Xavier

Direction Cláudia Varejão

Cast Ana Cabral · Ruben Pimenta · Cristiana Branquinho · Marlene Cordeiro

Plot Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of...

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Cast António Júlio Duarte · Albano Jerónimo · Isabel Abreu · João Pedro Bénard

Plot Paulo works as a night guard in a building site. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances and no regret would ever give him a sense of closure . He...

Direction André Marques

Cast Miguel Borges · Rui Xavier · Pablo Malter · Adriana Bolito

Plot Two friends embark on a journey towards the lake, towards themselves.

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Cast Isabel Abreu · Eduardo Aguilar · Cristovão Campos · Albano Jerónimo

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Cast João Pedro Bénard · Marcello Urgeghe · Isabel Abreu · Inês Pronto

Plot Óscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, takes advantage of the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and free old Norberto from his bitterness.

Direction Basil da Cunha

Cast Lara Cristina Cardoso · Marco Joel Fernandes · Alexandre Da Costa Fonseca · Michel David Pires Spencer

Plot Spira, 18, spent the last eight years in remand school and returns to Reboleira, a slum in Lisbon. His friends Giovani and Chandi are still there, as are the locals,...

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Cast Albano Jerónimo · Isabel Abreu · Filipe Duarte

Direction Daniel Blaufuks

Plot What remains of the 1940s and 1950s collective memory of Mindelo's two cinemas, and the two amateur groups who produced three 8mm films out of their love for cinema.

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Denis Côté · Marie Losier · Dominga Sotomayor

Cast Francisca Castillo · João Canijo · Carloto Cotta · Sónia Balacó

Direction Luciana Fina

Cast Fatumata Baldé · Aissato Baldé

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Direction Leonor Noivo

Cast Sara Gonçalves · António Fonseca

Plot A woman and two dogs, inside a house, in a city. She finds in her daily gestures the remembrance of someone who has left. The sun blinds her, becoming aggressive,...

Direction Sandro Aguilar

Cast Francisco Nolasco · António Paulo Martins · Arlindo Silva · Eduardo Aguilar

Direction Tiago Hespanha

Cast Afonso Matias · Emanuel Fernandes · João Neves · Nelson Oliveira

Plot "Campo" presents a reflection on the mundane and the transcendental in Europe's largest military base where troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the...

Direction Salomé Lamas

Cast Miguel Borges · Clara Jost · João Pedro Bénard · Gabriel Abrantes

Direction Joana Pontes

Cast Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo · Filipa Lowndes Vicente

Plot The Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution that put an end to the political...

Direction Salomé Lamas

Cast Ana Moreira · Carloto Cotta · Tomás Antunes · António Bollaño

Plot "During my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed, through the details, lives that will remain unknown", says the temporary chambermaid in a...