Rafael Gonçalves Cardoso

Nunca Mais É Demasiado Tempo (2024)

A director and his executive producer meet a fortune teller to get more information for the narrative of their next film. Later they find themselves in a delicate situation, where the predictions that were made by the fortune teller were quite certain in r ...

Home (2023)

Her name is El - a name that sounds like a letter and makes the young androgynous woman a kind of representative of her generation. A generation that is overwhelmed by all the possibilities of the world, globalization and the digital stream. Lisbon is a pr ...

Campos Belos (2023)

2720 (2023)

Jyzone has just got out of prison. He has found a new job, but the people he meets on the way to work risk making him late for his first day. Through a choreographic and poetic portrait outlined by skillful camera work, director Basil Da Cunha explores the ...

Tommy Guns (2023)

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portu ...

The Damned Yard (2023)

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard b ...

Ana Takes a Stand (2022)

Good girl Ana learns a lesson in selfishness when her generous nature is put to the test by an old friend. ...

Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (2022)

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the local turkey factories. Tânia (The Mother of the Portuguese), a former worker in these poultry plants, is no ...

Silvestre (2021)

A protagonist in limbo, with a precarious work situation, a temporary home location. And a hidden facet of his life that he reveals to few. ...

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 ...

Dawn (2021)

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water - she dreams of being a fish. One day her daughter comes across her disappearance and reconstructs, throug ...

Alta Morte (2021)

Name Above Title (2020)

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star. ...

A Rainha (2020)

Suddenly a mysterious woman appears in the West of Portugal. Everybody had seen her, but no one knew her. Mother, fairy, angel, owner of a wine business? Lúcia Pires's (Fauna, 2018) film questions confabulation and existence without a proof. ...

Lisbon Beat (2019)

A journey through Lisbon's suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity struggles. Different generations and backgrounds meet, Angola to São Tome, Cabo Verde and Guine Bissau represent ...

Ruby (2019)

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either. ...

Destiny Deluxe (2019)

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into a photoshoot by accident, Chloé who hopes to find a place to do her own work, and Helena who is back in her tow ...

Ashore (2018)

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon. Divided between the quiet solitude of the river and the family ties that wash him ashore, the film follows Albertino Lobo, as nature renews itself with each se ...

Djon Africa (2018)

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias "Djon África," born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, "a player and a crook." His fathe ...

The Dead Queen (2018)

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his b ...

You See the Moon (2018)

Lisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion. ...

The Love Circus (2018)

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near Alberto's residence, disturbing his everyday life and awakening his forgotten desire for independence and freedom. ...

Damned Summer (2017)

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth. ...

Bad Bunny (2017)

Wayward boy punishes his mother's lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child's guise. ...

Phantom Power (2019)

A young sound director has a task. Rafael must record a crucial sound for a film. With his headphones on he scans the city of Lisbon, looking and listening for this elusive sonic eccentricity – his journey made harder by all sorts of disruptive noises. ...

Freud und Friends (2015)

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes's unconscious. ...