Nuno Pardal

A modern villa in the dry Portuguese summer landscape. The sun scorching bright high in the sky, four well-built bodies - three male, one female - hanging out by the pool, on the porch, in the bedrooms. All seem to be waiting for something, or as it soon turns out - someone. Scene by scene we are revealed the complex interpersonal relations and the most important, the relation of all the characters with the one who is being waited for. Who is that mythical person and what will happen when he finally arrives?

제 1차 세계대전 중 포르투갈은 7만 5천명 이상의 군인들을 플랑드르로 보내 독일군과 맞서 싸운다. 전선에 투입된 포르투갈의 시골 출신 아니발 아우구스토 밀하이스는 매일 동료 병사들의 죽음을 지켜보며 연인이 기다리는 고향으로 돌아갈 꿈을 꾼다. 1차 대전에서 사상자가 가장 많은 전투였던 1918년 리스 강 전투에서 밀하이스는 부대원이 철수한 가운데 홀로 남아 독일군의 맹공격에 맞서 싸우며 전우들의 목숨을 지키려 고군분투하는데…

Ico is a post-colonial hero on a strange and familiar city, going from victim to predator.

A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.

Solitude and alienation are explored throughout a violent night.

Rosa, a recently single mother holds on to the idea of getting back with her ex. After a few public tribulations Rosa ends up locked in a room by him. Only to be saved later by a young neighbour, who will not only help her get out of the room but also to move on with her life.

In this short story, João and Pedro live in this garden. What João wants the most is for Pedro to be happy and the only way he found to make that happen is to support him in his escape with Sara. On the other hand, Pedro learned how to love João and does not want to leave the garden. But one of them ate the forbidden fruit.

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...