Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema

It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.

It's summer in the Portuguese countryside, where the local festivities take place. Chico is haunted by a hate crime committed in his village against a boy who was secretly close to him. Throughout this journey, Chico, pressured by his friends, tries both to follow their social standards and to hide his fears and desires.

In a moment of necessity, Rita turns to a childhood friend and old partner in crime, Eddie, the only person whom she trusts and who will help her commit an illegal act that is going to help them both in the lives they lead.

The filmmaker brings to life his child-hood memories of his vacations with his father, making this film his thank-you.

Under the harsh rays of the sun, Carlos is laying down. There is sunburn on his back. The wind is still. The air is warm. There’s a dryness in the air. He can barely breathe, until he sees Mateus.

An immigrant mother, hurting from a backache, calls for her son to help carry her groceries home. Along their way, they talk about the future through the past, returning to all of their disagreements, disillusionments, rancor and resentments.

At night, a voice evokes a fleeting memory of a song.

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta).

Two friends meet and the news is given that the grandmother of one of them has died. What was supposed to be a moment of consolation ends up becoming a change of perspective on death.

A girl helps her brothers get rid of the body of a man they murdered by accident.

One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college. The problems arise when she fails to get into college herself while she is helping him. What will she discover about their relationship?

A depressed singer works on a song just as she's leaving her old band and starts losing her voice.

Maria Rita is in charge of keeping in with Our Lady Holy Mary’s altar, replacing its candles and flowers. She breaks the statue by accident. Fearing getting caught, she throws the broken pieces into a nearby well. The next day, the inhabitants of the village gather to look for the statue, following the path that Maria Rita has taken the night before.

Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them in the act. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the enemy, making the mission much more difficult.

In an abandoned shopping center, Luis sees his best friend being assaulted. Incapable of facing it he runs away from the adolescent violence that haunts him while struggling against himself.