Miguel Costa

The Sound that Goes Down to Earth (2020)

Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matt ...

Blood Lines (2018)

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup. ...

Nzinga, Queen of Angola (2013)

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the ...

A Moral Conjugal (2012)

Manuela is a sensual medical representative. She is accustomed to walking the path of infidelity, recklessly involving herself with doctors. Suspended between the dream of a great love and a life of comfort, she oscillates in limbo between a man who has pa ...

Respiro (2010)

20.13: Purgatory (2006)

Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered. Simultaneously, the Capitan's wife arrives in surprise, bringing along a Priest, who is supposed to celebrate ...