Daniel Martinho

Os Vivos, o Morto e o Peixe Frito (2022)

Baía de Luanda (2022)

Pérola (39 years), a female lawyer, return to Angola, for her younger sister´s "Alambamento" (traditional Angolan ceremony where dowries and promises are exchanged between a couple) more than 20 years living abroad. On coming back, she realises that sh ...

Nirvana: A Gangster Odyssey (2017)

VEGA is a smalltime wiseguy who teams up with the most delinquent smalltime criminals to payback BARBAS the leader of the gang that betrayed him. ...

A Ilha dos Cães (2017)

Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a lux ...

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 ...

The Room You Take (2016)

We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the n ...

Tempests - Essay on a Rehearsal (2015)

A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text. In September 2015 teatro GRIOT - a theatre company based in Lisbon, whose actors are mostly Afro-descendants - started to rehearse Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with acc ...

The Thorn of the Rose (2013)

Prosecuting Attorney David Lunga's success is overshadowed by the terrifying secrets of Rosa, a beautiful but mysterious woman with whom he falls in love. What mysteries does she hide? As the macabre facts unravel, David comes face to face with his own dem ...

Kutama - Destino Lisboa (2013)

A young Mozambican man named Lourenço comes to Portugal and stays in his brother's place. Meanwhile, a suspicious man named Khossa, who's a friend of Lourenço's brother, offers him a job proposal. ...

All Is Well (2012)

As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn to live without money in a foreign city. On the edge of the law, the two have to grow up and become women. W ...

The Great Kilapy (2012)

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds him ...

Há Sempre um Amanhã (2012)

Paulo Lima is an engineer responsible for a multinational factory. Due to the recession, the factory receives a visit from the factory's owner's daughter, Luísa, who is sent to increase the factory's profit. Some cuts are due to make. ...

The Beauty and the Paparazzo (2010)

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privac ...

Sunday Drive (2009)

The Idalecio family is close to imploding emotionally. During the weekly Sunday drive all falls apart. It starts with a claustrophobic car trip through town. Nagging children, football on the radio, a mother in law with a sharp tongue, a new pregnancy. It ...

Vejo-te Quando lá Chegares (2008)

Kunta (2007)

One night, the phone rings in a traditional Portuguese snack bar from the country side. The Spanish Civil Guard is looking for Kunta. He isn't there and till he arrives people speculate about those phone calls and about who is that man. His he a thief? A t ...

Antonio, a boy in Lisbon (2002)

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation. ...

Dribbling Fate (1998)

Life has moved too fast for Mane. at the age of 50 he watches the slow sacrifice of his ideals. His wife, Lucy, has locked him in to a daily routine. His work in a small commercial shop and grocer's has worn him out. His dreams have evaporated into the dro ...

Requiem (1998)

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories. ...

Goodbye, Father (1996)

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality. ...

Blind Man's Bluff (1994)

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day. ...