Cleo Diára

Entroncamento (2025)

In the town of Entroncamento, violence, misfortune, greed, and loyalty rule the streets. Laura arrives there to rebuild her life, but the irresistible pull of quick money and crime immediately draws her back into a troubled past. For those she meets at thi ...

I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)

Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diar ...

Unicorn Hunting (2024)

The mother is dying, the relationship hangs by a string, the new job is at risk. Marco's only chance to avoid the tragedy is to find three unicorns before the day's end. ...

Vermelho Monet (2024)

Follows the story of Johannes Van Almeida, a painter who was just released from prison and wants to start his life anew, but everything changes when art dealer Antoinette, and international actress in crisis Florence Lizz, get in his way. ...

The Fortunate Ones (2024)

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her g ...

The Convent Gardener (2023)

Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two separate parts, the story of a young man and a young woman who pretend to be mute in order to get a job as a gar ...

Silvestre (2021)

A protagonist in limbo, with a precarious work situation, a temporary home location. And a hidden facet of his life that he reveals to few. ...

Nha Mila (2020)

After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to ...

Bustagate (2020)

Arriaga (2019)

On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of ...

Diamantino (2018)

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity. ...

Yellow Country (2018)

In a remote and inhospitable place with its own rules, we follow the journey of a group of women forced into slavery. ...

Damned Summer (2017)

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth. ...

A Song of Lisbon (2016)

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up gi ...