Leap. 2019
After sinking, Carlos turns up at the coast along with his colleagues. In a struggle for life already lost, Carlos tries to seek salvation by accepting death leaving his family behind.
After sinking, Carlos turns up at the coast along with his colleagues. In a struggle for life already lost, Carlos tries to seek salvation by accepting death leaving his family behind.
Álvaro Norte, a celebrated composer and cellist, invites his talented student Mauro to be his assistant. However, Mauro reveals he has other plans that would separate them. In response, Álvaro confines Mauro in a room, using his pain as inspiration for a new cello composition. Despite Mauro's resistance, he inadvertently ends up fulfilling Álvaro's artistic vision.
Maria, an elderly woman that lives alone, asks her neighbor for help fixing her TV.
A day in the life of Marta, a raspberry grower who doesn't give up on her dreams.
A man tries desperately to kill himself, but consistently fails to the amusement of the Narrator, who may or may not be behind his failure
The story of Lucas, a 13 year-old kid who swears vengeance to the man that abuses his mother in exchange for a miserable life.
After the death of his mother, Carlos returns to his childhood home. During a long night, Carlos is confronted with the many neighbors of his hometown, who will try to test him and lead him to madness.
Marco is a 16-year-old who plays tennis daily as a way of sheltering his helplessness towards his father's depression.
A making of documentary that records the productions days of a university film crew, making a short film called 'Incomum'.
And only the Man remains immune. Consumed by desperation, in an attempt to save the Woman and protect his Son, the Man goes looking for help and travels through the village where nothing is as it seems. During a surreal and hallucinating night, the Man, haunted by memories of another life, begins to lose track of reality.
Manuel, an elderly deaf and mute man who had suffered a stroke, has just arrived at a nursing home and establishes a tender relationship with a nurse, rejuvenating his troubled relationship with his father.
In 1974, Chico, a beloved host of a children’s TV show at the service of a repressive authoritarian regime, is forced to make the hardest decision of his life: murder a colleague live on air, or lose the approval of his powerful father. As the cameras roll, the program unravels into a surreal theatre of obedience, repression, and madness.
Eva and Sónia, orphans in their twenties, with very different backgrounds from each other, are in a romantic relationship held only by a van in which they live in and travel across the country.
Duarte rushes out of the house when he is confronted by his brother, Samuel, and is forced to explain why he has to run away. A few days later, Samuel is confronted by a group of drug dealers who have come to collect the debts left by his younger brother, Duarte. Feeling pressured, Samuel ends up choosing the quickest solution and agrees to take part in the fights.
In the Queluz-Belas area, on the Sintra Line, Edi, Yuri, and Válter are surrounded by crime: gangs, drug trafficking, robberies; situations that have become normal for them. Their time is divided between school and the time they spend together writing lyrics, listening to music, and walking along the Sintra Line. Under pressure from Jay Dogg, the leader of the RXR Boyz, the three boys will have to decide which side of the line they want to be on, ultimately having to make choices that could completely change their lives.
After the adoption of a very unusual pet by this girls mom, she will have to come to terms with living with a seagull named Espanhola.
The story of two brothers with a sick mother and a reality that leads the audience through paths of secrets and lies, puts the viewer in the role of participatory observer, each drawing its own conclusions.
Francisco Esteves, an elevator technician, lives between routine and a quiet passion for art. Inspired by the music of The Doors, he reflects on the paths not taken and the dreams that still drive him, in a constant search for meaning and freedom.
Pérola (39 years), a female lawyer, return to Angola, for her younger sister´s “Alambamento” (traditional Angolan ceremony where dowries and promises are exchanged between a couple) more than 20 years living abroad. On coming back, she realises that she does not fit in that environment anymore. The world that saw her come to life is now uncomfortable. In the beginning, she remains apart, watching all her parents do and say in a judgmental way, but as the party unfolds, Pérola starts to see the beauty of the place. That land and it´s People reveal a charm that she was not expecting and suddenly she understands that all her loneliness and emptiness she has felt all those years was only her home beckoning her back.