Francisco Moreira

Ouro e Cinza (2025)

Searching for redemption, a mother and a daughter go beyond their limits to break free from their comfortable but suffocating lives. A narrative of hallucinogenic qualities, pierced by moments of clarity. ...

UFO’s, Monsters and Utopias: Three Queer Shorts (2024)

Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new constellation of desires, fears, and struggles. Entre a Luz e o Nada by Joana de Sousa, Sob Influência by Ricardo ...

Human Nature (2023)

After another failed attempt to get pregnant, a young couple begins to diverge in their desires. Pandemics, climate change and life's uncertainties loom large. What does it mean to bring a child into an ever-more-complicated world? The cycles of nature and ...

Nameless Heitor (2022)

"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man riding a horse gave me a new order, to be even more on alert, waiting for a mirage, for a ghost that will not c ...

The Metamorphosis of Birds (2021)

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother, Beatriz, on her 21st birthday, spent extended periods at sea, leaving her with six children. This is the begin ...

Night for Day (2021)

For her newly commissioned video "Night 4 Day," Wardill has used the fake relationship between a mother and a son to think about what would happen if a communist revolutionary gave birth to a techno utopian, if gender as performitivity was thought through ...

Perpetual Night (2020)

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They request her presence at the police station. Paz immediately understands the fatality of this visit. With no ...

Alva (2019)

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the psychologist in charge of the process to get some sort of vengeance. From then on, he hides in the forest for several ...

Interdependence (2019)

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible sol ...

Holy Family (2019)

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica. Everything gets complicated on the day when the emblematic Sardoal FC mascot escapes and the club is at risk ...

Reynard (2019)

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of a free spi ...

Ave Rara (2019)

They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It's not an Angel. It isn't ? No. It's a rare bird, just like you and me. ...

Bostofrio (2018)

In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal. ...

Campo (2018)

"Campo de Marte" (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome's training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon, "Campo" hosts today Europe's largest military base. In this place military troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados obser ...

Self Destructive Boys (2018)

A direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual flexibility. ...

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 ...

Where I Grow Old (2017)

Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving portrait of two counterparts, attracting and repelling, is also an ode to Belo Horizonte: a city with no tourist ...

Beyond the Mountains (2017)

In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One day, the appearance of a man riding a donkey changes his future. ...

In the Darkness of the Theater I Take Off My Shoes (2016)

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to always welcome contemporary creations. Day-to-day life is demanding for dancers, choreographers, musicians, ...

Setembro (2016)

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story. ...

Trials, Exorcisms (2015)

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth years in the same factory, and finds himself awaiting for the resolution of the court on the application of t ...

Jorge's Paths (2013)

Jorge is a knife-sharpener. Despite being old and retired, he still keeps on working. Even health is not on his side, but this doesn't seem to stop him. He drives down the streets with his motorcycle loaded with the trade's tools day in and day out. Along ...

8816 Versos (2013)

Lura (2013)

This film dives into a new world of possibilities, from the diversity of emotions tcreated by this one man alone in this house to his behavior and transformation on the world that he is creating. ...

The Gift of Tears (2012)

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy. ...

The Community (2012)

A Comunidade is a short documentary focused on CCL, the oldest camping park in Portugal. ...

The Sword and the Rose (2010)

Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact. ...

Coconut Sweet (2010)

Diana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the sweets. Zacarias sells product in the city. One day, Diana goes to the river with her mother and her aunt Maria. ...

Like Water Through Stone (2009)

In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are experiencing the end of their youth. Impossible romances leave marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Each of the friends finds her own particular way to overco ...

Song of Love and Health (2009)

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop concealed in the basement of an obsolete nearly deserted shopping center. Some day, he hopes, the lady of his he ...

Jotta: a minha maladresse é uma forma de délicatesse (2009)

How to represent an artistic intention without reducing it to a description? How to do it preserving the intentionality of the gestus in an ambiguous andsubjective space where the individualism of the artistic perspective is set. "my maladresse…" propo ...