Olhar de Ulisses

Amid dynamics of power, desire, and seduction, Ofélia follows two teenagers who discover their mutual attraction on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, while simultaneously seeking to define their identity and place within an everchanging society.

Benjamin is trying to raise money through informal exchanges so that he can organize his son’s overdue birthday. Filimone is visiting his family between war missions, trying to be present at the growth of his three daughters. Eulália is a mother of six and gives birth to a new premature baby. Some days after, she has to come back to her job in a landfill.

What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.

In a small village in the north of Portugal, Agostinho endures the imprisonment of his routine. One day, he suffers a strange seizure leaving the factory where he works at the night shift. Unable to explain the reason for his condition, he returns home, to his girlfriend, to his friends. Subduing his dreams and concerns, Agostinho awaits for the night to come and, with it, another shift.

Drawing from an archive of letters written in the 1960s, the film reimagines women's clandestine journeys from across the United States to Mexican border towns to access underground abortion care.

One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.

Documentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?

The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.

While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.

A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that together they can piece together a memory of their shared past.

After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

A group of skaters take refuge in a shopping mall, making it their playground. As they spend time skating the empty hallways, the stillness creeps in. It's a dead end.

50|50 looks at the frustrations and triumphs that couples still encounter as they try to find a balance between raising children and working. Each story unveils the obstacles and prejudices that men and (mostly) women still have to overcome. This documentary sheds light on the roads to conciliation, giving voice to ambitious, career-oriented women, but also to couples who are struggling to have children or to share their unpaid domestic duties fairly. 50 | 50 evaluates the advancements accomplished while also questioning whether the ongoing progress is sufficient in light of the times we live in.