Daniel Neves

You Didn’t Know About Me (2021)

You Didn't Know About Me proposes a filmic narrative to 7 characters, all with serious mental commitments. The themes presented are free: childhood, nostalgia and loneliness. The scripts elaborated are based on memories and experiences lived by the charact ...

Tupinambá Subiu a Serra (2021)

Ailton Krenak: O Sonho da Pedra (2017)

The documentary follows the trajectory of Ailton Krenak, indigenous leader from Minas Gerais, a descendant of the Krenak ethnic group, formerly called Botocudos. After studying in São Paulo, Ailton was active in the defense of indigenous peoples. While tr ...

Passinho Dance Off (2013)

Kids from the favelas of Rio use dance as an alternative to drugs and crime. ...

Bobô (2013)

Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia's mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama's younger sister, a ...

Lisboa - Palavras para uma Cidade (2012)

José & Pilar (2010)

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for c ...

Segunda-Feira (2008)

A woman, distressed by waiting, isolates herself at home. On the other side, a man tries to reassure her over the phone, but only the emptiness of morning television programs and her obsession with a film distract her. The news finally arrives. Part of the ...

Dedicated To The One I Love (2008)

Um Mundo Catita (2007)

The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his sexy dentist who is already the fiancée of a well-off executive. The adventures and misadventures of the singer in this wonderful new world are told with t ...

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha (2007)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage. ...

Season (2007)

Summer late afternoon in a Lisbon suburb. The concerns and expectations of a group of friends as they shift to a new stage of their lives. ...

Waiting for Europe (2006)

This inward portrait of young Vania follows her from Bulgaria to Portugal and Spain and back home. Vania wishes a better life searching her personal independence and identity. She experiences illegality, isolation and exploitation while she tries to find a ...

Floripes (2005)

The legend of Floripes, is about an enchanted moor of Olhão, in the Algarve. Enchanted moors are one of the cornerstones of Portuguese mythology. They are often seductive and being temptresses, they can offer a powerful reward, but also a terrible curse. ...

Sea and the Jungle (2005)

Angolares are the oldest inhabitants of the island of São Tomé. Control of the island was wrested from them in the late 19th century, and their descendents have been reduced to a small fishing community. This fascinating film explores the tangled history ...

Salitre (2005)

A short time has passed. Both arrived to a point of no return, a break is the only way out. One of them has to take the first step. This morning both decide to leave, definitely, without the other realizing it. The house remains empty. ...

O Nome e o N.I.M. (2003)

Every year the Portuguese Army recruits thousands of Citizens to constitute the National Service. At 10 pm ligths are killed in the quarters. "Hey? Are you awake? Those guys are fucking you up, you hear me? I mean, I don't know you man, but to me you're li ...

Zombietown 23 (1998)

Terrence McKenna: "What is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears." Aleister Crowley: "I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." Pessoa: "We never love anyone. What we ...

Death Always Craves (2027)

The story follows a young pregnant woman who, upon visiting her ailing mother, finds herself trapped in a whirlwind of supernatural events and dark secrets that connect her to the mysterious past of the old residence. ...

Cristiano por Accidente (2024)

Suddenly a believer (2023)

A rising business manager who is extremely prejudiced against Christians sees his life transformed by a supernatural event. Now he will see that opinions conceived without critical examination lead to wrong and damaging conclusions. ...

Chatô, The King of Brazil (2015)

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'. ...