Paula Só

Caiu (2024)

In the 50s, a poor rural family crosses the Alentejo scrubland to bury a relative. But the road holds a surprise for them: a closed chest, half-buried in the arid soil. Perhaps it's a gift from heaven, perhaps it's the opposite... ...

A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor (2024)

A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul ...

Cidade Rabat (2024)

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs into a coming of middle age story. ...

The Christmas Eve (2021)

A flight to Lisboa is diverted to Beja due to a snowstorm, forcing several passengers to spend Christmas Eve away from their families. ...

A Fistful of Coins (2021)

The Baron (2011)

A school inspector travels to the baron's fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The i ...

Natália, a Diva Trágicómica (2011)

Documentary about the life of the lyric singer Natália de Andrade. ...

Rio Turvo (2007)

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the "swamp-flower", protégée of a Socratic Director ( ...

Ensaio Sobre o Teatro (2006)

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of "ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA" (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago. ...

Adriana (2005)

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he decided to send his daughter, Adriana, to the mainland to form a family by natural methods. ...

Fair Day (2004)

Dawn is breaking into day. Fair day. As in every year. But this is a year of mourning. "It doesn't look right!" Vera says to her sister. And her mother-in-law looks at her and remembers the dead son. Remembrance is a silence between the two of them. Childr ...

Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara (2004)

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you ...

Undo - um Conto de Fadas do Séc. XXI (2004)

A fairy tale from the computer age: a 15 year-old boy finds a computer, which has the magical power of undoing short periods of his life. ...

Almirante Reis (2002)

8 8 (2001)

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back. ...

Bad (2000)

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off he ...