Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica

Unholy unfinished project.

A game of Paintball emerges as a vehicle for the exploration of masculinity and power dynamics among a group of boys.

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

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.

It dawns. A group of hunters is reunited, suspended in time and space. Prey and predator.

When a son fails at a job interview, his parents have to deal with a problem: they have to deal with his jobless son and their son with his father's secret.

One winter night, the sea once again threatens the flat tower where Teresa lives. The next day, her daughter comes to pressure her to leave everything behind.

Rafa senses an eminent farewell, remembering bygone places, encounters and fleeting connections.

Everyone remembers well that night of the burning pigs. José was born the morning after, and some say that he came from that fire, and became man out of the pigs. When his mother dies, José leaves the village for the first time, in search of something more.

A real test to the relationship of two brothers. "Guardião" accompanies the conflict between State and fraternal love.

Sónia, a badminton athlete, chases the dream of one day participating in the Olympic Games. However, an unexpected surprise will change the course of her path.

The short film tells the story of Natasha, a young woman of dual nationality who, after years living with her mother in Riazan (Russia), is looking for an opportunity to earn money in Portugal. Natasha becomes a waitress and, as time goes by, encounters Pub’s economic difficulties and poor pay for her work. Enticed by her colleagues, she ends up making decisions that will condition her future.

Postal Fever launches a gaze through time and memory, crystallizing in collective and personal heritages. Putting into contact contemporary Super 8 images and family archives recorded on video, it tries to reflect – both critically and cryptically – on the nature of the images and their survival.

Alex, in his neighbourhood, learned to grow up by his own will. His father drives a cab, but today he is sick and is not going to work. Alex leaves home with his father's car and drives to his school, looking for his friend Rafa. Today is a different day.

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.

A journalist, in the diligence of reuniting informations to complete the biography of a missionary priest that travelled Africa, visits the village and the abandonned house in which he lived and died. Once there, he acknowledges that not even his scepticism will free him from the forces that persist there.

A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.

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

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.