Clara Jost

Justa (2025)

In 2017, in Portugal, devastating wildfires destroyed forests and killed children and adults; some died in their villages, others were trapped on a road. Communication failed, and the villages had no shelters. The film's action does not take place in 2017 ...

Felicidade numa Panela (2024)

The Illusion of an Everlasting Kiss (2024)

A November day in Porto, in a square where skaters jump up a flight of stairs. Three characters share a moment, which is divided into three subjective shots and which, without dialogue, are intended to characterize them emotionally. The idea of shared love ...

Blindman's Buff (2021)

Gabi believes in her ability to act in times of injustice, relying on her physical abilities. One day, Gabi finds out that her brother, Daniel, is a victim of bullying in their neighbourhood. Suffering from unexpected outbreaks of sleepwalking, he disappea ...

Meine Liebe (2020)

In June 2016, a girl bought a tomato plant. As there were no cherry tomato plants available, she had to buy a regular tomato one. Even though she knew the pot was small, the tomato plant lived his whole existence in it, until October of that same year, in ...

Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ? (2019)

In Rio de Janeiro, people from the Mangueira neighbourhood follow the television broadcast on a big screen as the juries vote on each samba school. In 2019, Mangueira took to the Sambadrome a strong, bold samba of resistance to what's taking place in Brazi ...

Six Portraits of Pain (2019)

Several images follow one another to the work of António Pinho Vargas, Six Portraits of Pain, played in full. ...

Tu. Tu. Tu. (2019)

A student far from home, talks to his mother on the phone. The distance to the mother and the distance to the gardeners are the two weights in tension that start from the first window of the film, the first frame, through which we occupy our gaze. Distance ...

Verniz (2019)

Strangers cross paths on a bus ride at night. ...

Half a Light-Year (2021)

A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other. ...

Colo (2017)

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from ...

Love Love (2017)

Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and ...

Coup de Grâce (2017)

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn't want to allow it as there is so much to do, but he finally concedes. The next day his daughter calls on him, a visit he no lo ...

Bunker (2015)

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers. ...

Water and Salt (2001)

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened ...