João Alves

Guilherme is a boy with 13 years old that plays tennis, he has to see and deal with his nightmares and his own fears.

Dialogue of Shadows uses the exhibition "Pedro Costa: Company" as its raw material, and as a starting point to build a mosaic, sparking a dialogue between several figures from filmmaker Pedro Costa's creative imagination.

From the ocean, a volcanic island rises into steamy mist. The black rock of the earth stands in sharp contrast to the billowing vapor that hovers and drifts above the surface. A narrator describes how the island’s first inhabitants sought to explain the violent eruption by attributing the devastation to the wrath of angry gods. With breathtaking black-and-white cinematography, this poetic exploration considers the human relationship to this volatile land, where residents live alongside the looming threat of eruption with reverence, fear, and awe. A collection of scenes where dark and light miraculously coexist illuminates both the physical and spiritual landscapes of this extraordinary place, where life endures the perils of the natural world.

Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.

“Sacavém” is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films and focused on his work on “Down to Earth”, “Bones”, “In Vanda's Room“, “Colossal Youth” and “Horse Money” Built on the visual and sound landscape of Pedro Costa’s films and accompanied by his owns reflections on the matter, “Sacavém” serves the audience has a window on how Costas cinema is sensed and conceived.