Vasco Viana

Bad for a Moment (2024)

A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying. ...

City of Wind (2024)

Ze, a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa, his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible. ...

Amelia’s Children (2024)

When Edward's search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he ...

Légua (2023)

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challen ...

Cesária Évora (2023)

World renowned performer Cesária Évora's voice took her from poverty to stardom. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer's life, the film follows her struggles and success. ...

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó (2023)

Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe. ...

Shimmering Bodies (2023)

The afternoon Jorge asks Mariana over for a weekend at his house in Leiria, she starts to see him in a whole new light. Unsure of her friend's intentions, Mariana accepts his unexpected and baffling invitation. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zwischen uns (2022)

Eva is struggling to live happily with her autistic son Felix. The two are inseparable, but Felix's frequent outbursts of anger, the constant problems at school and his fear of strangers are almost impossible for Eva to cope with. One day when Felix accide ...

The Lone Wolf (2021)

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend. ...

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 ...

The Last Bath (2020)

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled. ...

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. ...

Um Desejo de Natal (2019)

Several stories of love and hope, united by invisible threads. There are those who call these threads magic, some who call them destiny. ...

Patrick (2019)

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Ashmina (2018)

In an impoverished country, rife with contradiction, a young girl is torn between her obligation to her family and the influence of foreign visitors. Ashmina, 13, lives at the outskirts of Pokhara Nepal. Her home, nestled between a beautiful lake and the H ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sunbeat (2017)

Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the couple's p ...

The Nothing Factory (2017)

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of production, they are forced to stand at their posts with no w ...

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. ...

A Drowning Man (2017)

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer. ...

Tudo o Que Imagino (2017)

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão, "BDA". ...

High Cities of Bone (2017)

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated. ...

Cidade (2017)

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in the social housing neighborhoods and s ...

Setembro (2016)

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

Goodnight Cinderella (2014)

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair. ...

Versailles (2013)

An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moments of clarity, she will persuade him to kill her. ...

Gypsy (2013)

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to give him a ride home - but they won't reach their expected destination. ...

Immaculate (2013)

A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope. ...

Fragmentos de Uma Observação Participativa (2013)

While observing others, Paula is also, herself, observed. ' Know the difference between an old maid and a spinster? The old maid does not have a choice. ...

The End of the World (2013)

A portrait of the daily lives of young people living in a new-built estate on the outskirts of Lisbon. School is a joke and there's no work to be had anyway, so the girls try to have fun as best they can. New-girl Eva is very pretty but quiet. The others a ...

Four Hours Barefoot (2012)

In a mountain village in the north of Portugal, a murder occurred. A sixteen-year-old boy leaves the house barefoot, under the cold night, towards the forest. For thirty kilometres he walks, up and down the mountain. He has one single thought in his head. ...

Cat's Cradle (2012)

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared to us as a porcelain doll, small, fragile, pale, with a little hair bow. Little by little, she crumbled apar ...

Cerro Negro (2012)

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the life of one of them, the incarceration in jail of the other determines a cycle of separation. Salaviza's sk ...

Rafa (2012)

Rafa is a 13 years old kid concerned with his mother, held in a police station for driving without a license. The director shows a day in the life of a teenager who lives on a problematic area and discovers that her mother was arrested because of an autom ...

Bela Vista (2012)

Lives being lived, words, gestures, gazes cross our paths, amidst a chaos en framed by a rectangular grid of windows and balconies. Rows of buildings interconnected by corridors perched over courtyards. Each ones property off their private slice of the vie ...

Soil (2012)

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends. ...

Orquestra Geração (2011)

Generation Orchestra is a portrait of the impact of an initiative by the same name students from the Miguel Torga School, in Amadora. The initiative was inspired by the international project Orquestra Simon Bolivar, the apex of the National Network of Yout ...

Hell (2011)

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia. ...

Casa Na Comporta (2011)

Casa Na Comporta is one of four films commissioned to different directors for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale. ...

The Flesh (2010)

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptures address any punishment for her sins. ...

Respiro (2010)

Arena (2009)

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his ...

The Summer of Rita M. (2006)

One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college. The problems arise when she fails to get i ...

O Outro Lado de Patrick (2020)

A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists. ...