Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis

This is a story about memories and first experiences; about friendship, weed, and a lot of pizza. A story about the underground youth.

Abel doesn't leave his room for 20 years. After the accident, he confined himself to the cloister and his instincts, creating a routine. However, it is when the person who ensures his survival ceases to appear, finishing the food and the drink, that he ends up leaving the alienated state in which he is. Abel goes out to the unknown in order to satisfy his addiction. Without knowing it, he is approaching the abyss.

Two girls who love each other while living under a homophobic government, trying to stay together in a society that wants to keep them apart.

HELLMINTA is the end, HELLMINTA is the beginning; The cycle repeats itself again and again; Thea is hungry and Ethan is meat, and she needs more and more; She’s a maneater.

FUGAZI is an experimental short film that explores the genesis of space through the presence of sound. Inspired by Leibniz’s relational theory, the film suggests that space only exists when it is inhabited, in this case, by sound. Through a sensory and progressive montage, sound reveals, transforms, and collapses space, guiding the viewer through cycles of creation and dissolution. It is an audiovisual experience about the invisible becoming visible when heard.

Nena is a young woman obsessed with her appearance and with the idea of growing old. Influenced by a culture that turns female aging into something to fear, she develops an anxious relationship with both the mirror and her own body. When she buys an anti-wrinkle cream in an attempt to stop time, she begins to realise that her struggle is futile. During a visit to her grandmother, she encounters an elderly woman who is happy, confident and at peace with herself. This meeting changes Nena’s perspective: aging stops being a monster and becomes a natural continuation of life.

Mars, a teenage girl, travels between her conscious and her unconscious, reflecting about her place and her environment and the role she plays in her own life.

A young woman who lives in isolation clings to a quiet routine as a means of survival, until the instability that holds her back comes to the surface, and she loses the control that keeps her ‘present’.