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A son of a butcher, who is miserable working in his family’s business, avoids touching meat at all costs just because he doesn’t have the guts to tell his father he wants to be vegan.
Jun 2023
A teenager does a forced summer job in a forest watchtower, indifferent to the immigrants in the surrounding greenhouses.
In a community recently shaken by a local tragedy, 12-year-old João and his alcoholic father make a living from fishing. However, the effects of climate change on the business, the ghosts of their past and the father's increasingly erratic behavior could lead to their separation. It is in the next-door neighbors that João meets an unlikely family that could be his only hope for a different future.
Feb 2026
May 2012
Apr 2026
An introduction to cinema made by Portuguese-speaking women, narrated by a fictionalized Bárbara Virgínia, the first Portuguese woman director.
May 2023