Tiago Cardoso

In a desolate seaside parking lot, three young surfers take off one suit and put on another as they go through the rituals of growing up.

Aslan, a young insecure fisherman who lives on a Turkish island, finds a valuable lobster cave while diving. Knowing this treasure will bring him wealth and the prestige that he has never had in his society, he decides to keep it a secret from his cousin and best friend Yilmaz until he can properly harvest the lobsters by himself. By not sharing the secret, Yilmaz's growing suspicion conjures a series of paranoid obsessions that thrust him into a downward spiral.

Despite entering the session with an agenda, therapy doesn't go as planned for Kevin when his counselor announces their time together has run its course.

Issa, a footballer from Guinea-Bissau who plays in Portugal, is contacted by two filmmakers who want to know more about his life and make a documentary. Exposing the voices behind the camera, Nha Sunhu is a reflection on the gaze, bias, and representation of the other.

In this allegory on truth and loss, a mother meets a stranger who may hold the key to solving her son's untimely death.

Documentary on the Aleixo neighborhood of Porto, Portugal: a low income working class community plagued by drug sales and slated for demolition.Will it's dispersed residents, ripped from their homes, have the force to carry on?

Indira decides to restart her life and move to London. However, on her last day, she dares to explore what she will leave behind.

A misanthropic 20-something gay visual artist, Mark, finds himself unwittingly in New York City after he lies to his mother about a job at a prestigious art gallery. He then takes a survival job babysitting for 6-year-old Milo, whose faith in Mark is empowering and ultimately, transformative.

A physicist whose father was murdered during the Guatemalan civil war. In an attempt to reconnect with his father's energy he becomes obsessed with finding a way to measure Karma through spacetime. Through his journey it becomes clear that the only way to find his father is to just let go.

On her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting.

A priest grapples with his faith, the past, and his ride-sharing nightjob as he attempts to prevent a grieving penitent’s death.

A priest grapples with his faith, the past, and his ride-sharing nightjob as he attempts to prevent a grieving penitent’s death.

Best friends travel though Latin America meeting shamans, experimenting with plant medicines, and wondering about what makes a life well-lived when one of them might have half the time to live it.

In a world where flowers represent emotions, Gloria, an Italian Mother, faces devastating loss and loses her way. She must battle her own sadness to find peace.

Zion, a club kid grappling with their gender-fluid identity, finds liberation in New York City's avant-garde nightlife scene while facing backlash from their boyfriend who struggles to understand.

While grappling with the loss of her only child, a woman abandons her husband and embarks on a road trip as a means of escape.

After six months in modern Seattle, Ray, broke and lonely, decides to return to the Region, his depressed hometown, to finish his High School senior year. Once at home he quickly reconnects with old friends, and old habits.

Kate attends her estranged sister's bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.

Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.

In the township of Mphopomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, Siyabonga, a young man, puts up theatre plays. When he hears about a movie that will be shot in a nearby town, he makes it his mission to be part of it. From conspiring with a maid to steal wifi from the “umlungus” (white people) so he can write an email to the film producers to using witchcraft, Siyabonga does all he can to improve his life and take control of his fortune. And after travelling many surprising roads, he’ll finally meet the film’s director. Siyabonga is born out of their encounter.

A film about the egocentric and superficial youth and the evermore consumerist society.

Just like a young man starting to love, a river has to find its way through the mountains.

Letters from Childhood explores a story about two childhood friends - Kate and Sarah - through the countless letters that Kate wrote many years later.

Elena is a 17 year old teenager who has doubts about her sexuality. She lives with her grandmother who is a repressive and hard-to-please religious woman and in the midst of it all, her cousin Julia appears at her house, bringing new airs to her life and awakening Elena's need to discover herself.

When a young woman is interrogated, she must relive the traumatic events of a brutal crime, in order to discover the assailant's true identity.

Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of Super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino's urge of cinema into a film about the images of his memory.

Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage. Azarias’ dream is to be a normal child, to go to school, gold that is supported by his grandmother. One day, when Azariah is in the pasture, Mabata Bata steps into a mine - the result of the civil war in the country - and explodes. The young man fears his uncle's reprisals and flees to the forest, taking with him the remaining oxen. The grandmother and uncle leave in their quest to rescue him and persuade him to return.

The Woman opens the front door. Two men greet her by saying "Good morning my lady, we came to install the fear.".

Fragments of light and shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter.

A clown finds that his former lover is now involved with a woman, and engages in a mad, obsessive plot to rejoin him.

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and others heard.

An old man is awaken for a night that will change his life.

An old man is awaken for a night that will change his life.

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 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 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.

Six reckless and troubled teenagers are forced to spend their weekend together in a vacation house.

Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.

When a suspicious doctor recruits wide-eyed Willy to be the test subject in a mysterious experiment, there are two things Willy doesn't know: this man is not a doctor, and Willy is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.