Ágata Pinho

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Numa ténue linha entre o sonho e a realidade, João confronta as expectativas frustradas numa relação a dois.

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

Nos anos 60, António (Pedro Frias), um agente da PIDE, é destacado para seguir Aurora (Ágata Pinho) até Paris, uma jovem suspeita de oposicionismo. Decorre o mês de maio de 1968 e, durante a revolta estudantil, os dois jovens apaixonam-se. De regresso ao Porto, a paixão proibida termina bruscamente. Durante décadas, António escreve a Aurora cartas que ela guarda sem abrir. Quando a correspondência é inesperadamente interrompida, ambos desistem de viver. Baseado no romance da realizadora intitulado "A Casa Azul".

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.

An obese young man and his quest for female companionship at a food-fetish bar called 'Balança' where only the corpulent are allowed to enter.

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it.

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.