António Ferreira

The Days Off (2026)

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls her age. ...

The Survivors (2025)

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The fight for survival and power will flip the moral and social values of those days. ...

Bela America (2023)

Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the Pres ...

Yellow Sunglasses (2021)

Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who ...

That Weekend (2021)

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She's here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she's come back to recover money that she left there, and ...

Magnetick Pathways (2019)

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse. ...

The Dead Queen (2018)

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his b ...

The Cause and the Shadow (2015)

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary. ...

Codename: Angola (2015)

In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the ...

I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You (2015)

"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose wo ...

Jongo (2013)

Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary. ...

Saturday's Lunch (2013)

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships. ...

The Beheading Game (2013)

Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master's thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes' controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian cens ...

Here's the Deal (2013)

Suso and Manuel, two-parent family and lifelong friends, met fifty years, they become unemployed. When the situation is no longer tenable, an unusual fact: one day, while fishing, find a package with ten kilos of cocaine. ...

Things Don't Happen by Accident (2013)

This is the look that the film about Eduardo Gageiro takes. A film that departs from the stories of two images and that moves on crossing them with the ones that come out of the construction of his latest book. A film that shows how the deep Portuguese loo ...

Super Vodka (2012)

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too. ...

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory (2012)

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes. ...

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work (2011)

There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and ...

We Are Free (2011)

A photograph and a song from the Portuguese revolution, unite the three characters forever. This movie revisits them 30 years later and depicts what has become from the "revolution dream". ...

Embargoed (2010)

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last. ...

Embargo (2010)

Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to ...

Retornos (2010)

Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he ...

Hepicat (2010)

A film about the incommunicability of two worlds. ...

Football With a Cause (2009)

The documentary shows the academic movement and its several crisis by the players perspective and the way they contributed and involved themselves in the movement as students and Men. The main focus will be on the players and the academic leaders in this p ...

Intervalo (2009)

A young housewife bored with her marriage seduces a neighbor teenage boy through the window. ...

El Justiciero (2009)

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero". ...

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone (2007)

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in caus ...

It Wasn't God's Will (2007)

The story of Ramiro, a young boy, who is leaving to war; his return and his missing with the love of his life, Laurinda. ...

Pay Per View (2007)

A blind man. A belvedere. One coin. ...

Humanos: Ao Vivo (2006)

Humans: Variations of Life (2006)

One day, a forgotten box of shoes is discovered in a shelf of the record company. Inside this box, there were tapes containing home made recordings of the famous Portuguese composer - Antonio Variacoes. When one listens to these tapes, where Variações si ...

Rockumentary (2006)

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra. ...

The miracle of Kaufbeuren (2003)

Documentary about the roots of the charismatic nun Crescentia in her Allgäu homeland, her miraculous work and her canonization by the Pope. ...

Forget Everything I Told You (2002)

Felizbela loves her husband with obsessive intensity, surrounding him with an explosive mix of passion and jealousy that will inevitably turn into hatred. To keep his attention, she stops at nothing, enduring suffering and humiliation in an attempt to win ...

Two in One (2001)

Two old men sharing a room in a nursery home, try to get along. ...

Breathing Under Water (2000)

What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets h ...

WC (1997)

Fatal Gel (1996)

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta). ...

Embargoed (2010)

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last. ...