Pedro Pernas

Your Face Will be the Last (2024)

A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a luminous mother afflicted by an incurable disease. A grandfather and grandmother in exile on a smal ...

Monte Clérigo (2023)

A teenager does a forced summer job in a forest watchtower, indifferent to the immigrants in the surrounding greenhouses. ...

A Traição do Padre Martinho (2022)

In a small Portuguese village in the late 1960s, a young priest sides with the population in their struggle for better living and working conditions. Following complaints from the industrialist who employs most of the village's population, the bishop decid ...

Ponto Final (2022)

Through an acting game, the director's parents become movie stars to talk about the cancer they both overcame and the fear of loss. ...

Maluda (2021)

Inspired by the biography of the portuguese painter Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro, known as Maluda, who found the stage of her art in Lisbon. ...

Interface (2020)

Raúl, a computer programmer believes that the world as we know it is doomed and that the project he is developing will change the lives of many people. ...

Misantropo (2017)

The Voice and Ears of MFA (2017)

Documentary short about the April's Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Military officers – namely Captains and Majors – who banded together to overthrow the Authoritarian regi ...

Grandpa (2014)

A day in the life of a grandpa. ...

A Audição (2009)

Microclimat (2007)

The Heart's Root (2000)

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young ...