Screenplay
Ana is spending the holidays with her family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a pond. Attracted by it, Ana senses a presence, someone familiar yet still unknown. Alexander David captures on screen all the beauty of a childhood self-discovery and the first uncertain steps taken outside of parental control. Evocative and mellow, Water Hazard explores queer identity with a delicate and empathetic eye.
Director
Ana is spending the holidays with her family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a pond. Attracted by it, Ana senses a presence, someone familiar yet still unknown. Alexander David captures on screen all the beauty of a childhood self-discovery and the first uncertain steps taken outside of parental control. Evocative and mellow, Water Hazard explores queer identity with a delicate and empathetic eye.
On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.
Production Design
On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.
Screenplay
On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.
Director
On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.
Laura is on a vacation with her friends for the weekend in a luxurious and isolated house. The group decide to do a hallucinogenic drug and seem to become absorbed by their nature surroundings. However, after a strange encounter at night, Laura is having trouble facing reality.
Editor
Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.
Production Manager
In a small apartment in the city, a mother and her son live their own secret and silent routines, sharing these not even with each other. They would like to spend time together, perhaps even talk to each other, but he grows up with animals and planets, whereas she is always elsewhere. The long and circular days push them further inside themselves, but maybe the spark of an unexpected connection can still set them free.
Alberto
Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near Alberto’s residence, disturbing his everyday life and awakening his forgotten desire for independence and freedom.
João
Numa ténue linha entre o sonho e a realidade, João confronta as expectativas frustradas numa relação a dois.
Boris
Um grupo de estudantes universitários de Lisboa organiza um encontro secreto no interior do país. Na ânsia de obter um estatuto superior e aceder ao verdadeiro conhecimento, os estudantes submetem-se a estranhos rituais inventados pelo seu líder, o obscuro Dux.
Sebastião Valente
Vasco Leitão, vive da mesada das tias, que vivem no Porto e o consideram um aluno cumpridor. Mas Vasco prefere os bares e as mulheres bonitas, em particular Alice, uma rapariga com talento para a música e filha do candidato a Primeiro Ministro José Caetano. Os azares de Vasco sucedem-se: no mesmo dia em que volta a reprovar uma prova oral, recebe um e-mail em que as tias lhe anunciam uma visita a Lisboa.
Alex
Mariana é uma rapariga à procura de um contexto com o qual pensou comprometer-se desde que saiu de casa dos pais para viver com Alex, em Lisboa. Quando ele parte para Nova Iorque, ela não suporta o que lhe resta. Embora um regresso fosse impensável, ela volta ao Norte. O abandono de Lisboa com o peso de ter falhado consigo e a travessia do rio de volta a casa levam-na ao encontro da lenda do esquecimento: quem atravessasse esse rio esquecer-se-ia do seu passado. Alex volta enquanto Mariana conquista um enquadramento que lhe possa servir. Ele não acredita mais neste país. Ela está mais próxima do lugar onde a sua vida começou. Ele parte. Ela não regressa.
He came from the city and is trying to fit in the countryside – Alentejo. His life is dedicated to picking raspberries, hunting and taking swims in the canal. She is passing through and comes from the world he wanted to leave behind. One day they meet and their attraction is immediate. But their natures prevail over all else: she is free and he's a hunter.
Rapaz do Manjerico
Seguindo as tradições portuguesas de 13 de junho — quando os enamorados ofertam a Santo Antônio um vaso de manjericão como prova de seu amor — um grupo de jovens ocupam as ruas tomados por uma estranha letargia.
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.
Rosário
A história do último inverno da vida de Tonia, uma veterana do espectáculo de travesti lisboeta. Enquanto Tonia luta contra a dependência da heroína de Rosário, o seu namorado heterosexual, o mundo à sua volta implode: o espectáculo de travesti agoniza, a concorrência de artistas mais novas ameaça o seu estatuto de vedeta. Pressionada por Rosário a dar o último passo para assumir a sua identidade feminina, a mudança de sexo que a irá transformar numa mulher, Tonia luta contra as suas mais profundas convicções religiosas. Se por um lado quer ser a mulher que Rosário deseja, por outro sabe que perante Deus nunca poderá ser essa mulher.
In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist couple Rob and Ryan acknowledge the fact that their mission to save humanity from extinction is doomed. Leaving the rainforest behind, they and adopt little Sasha, born of a young woman who rented her womb for money only to die giving birth. Forced to look straight into the cynicism and selfishness of their choices, while Apocalypse rages around them, Rob and Ryan must finally face their own contradictions without hypocrisy.
