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Alice, a recently widowed director, is alone on her grief after her daughter leaves home. Alice clings to the only structure she has, a fragile foundation at risk of collapsing: an essay film project, about first loves, dependent on funding. Suddenly we enter in another dimension, another place and without prior notice we are in the film conceived by the director.

Forty years later six ex-fighters, that had been together in the War in Africa, keep meeting.

Video installation that compiles images of war through the ages with a focus on the genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Installation was designed after the creation of the video for the play "Cleopatra's Nose, of course!" from Augusto Abelaira. Directed by Cristina Carvalhal. Company COMMON CAUSES.

In a remote valley of the Peneda mountain there is a man who ... has changed. Departed. We need to go get him to give him a funeral. The mortician Olegario, accompanied by Raul and Carlos, a ride in the pick-up (there is no other way to reach the target) and go up the mountain. It will be a service for a long journey.

The story of a family seeking harmony, seen by a twelve-year-old boy

The Bodiless Woman it's a film based on women's testimonies, victims of domestic violence. The statements are filmed in a stripped room, but we don't see the Woman. We see a door opening, closing, the chair moving, but we can not see the Woman. It's a film about the victim's invisibility. Joana is the character who represents the real testimonies, a double that lives the violence consequences, a woman that left the world, becoming an antisocial being. Lives from the Minimum Income. Sleeps in a poor Guest House. She volunteers in a kennel. The days are all the same. But the insecurities of the past do not abandon her, the husband and daughter are always present in her dreams that follow her in a constant tension. Joana lives with the ghosts of the past. Inevitably, she realizes she has to return to the real world. Joel, who also lives in the Guest House, helps her whenever he can, but the Guest House owner threatens to expel her whenever there is a day's late payment. This man represents a kind of violence continuity - The Bodiless Woman is an intervention film about the violence perpetuation and, above all, about the victim's dignity.

A mortician and two helpers look for a man who died for his funeral. A road movie through the mountains of northern Portugal. Who lives in these places now? Why are they still living there? What Time is theirs? What secrets do they keep? It will be a service for a long journey.

Maria is almost blind. She's been waiting for cataract surgery for 3 years. António, an old fisherman, takes care of her, hiding the secret of an old love. Miguel, a mysterious boy, wanders through the city, watching daily for Maria's house. Ana, Maria's daughter visits her mother. Despite their misfortune, they seek to redeem themselves under the eyes of António and Miguel. Maria is not alone.

Village of Reboleiro, north of Portugal. 103 old people live at Santa Catarina Residence. They wake up, they walk by the corridors. A few others are exercizing at the living room. Some assistants work at the kitchen, or at the laundry. The president is looking after the vacancies. The psychologist interviews some old people, analyzing their memory. Sometimes they go on a trip by bus. It's a different day. They used to be country people. The major part of those old people have missed already the idea of Time in a strange Space for them. There's a great desire to communicate, they don't want to be alone. They need to come back to their homes. They knock at the doors of each others, they pray, they walk by the residence corridors, they wait.

Hugo, a teenager, imagines a movie about his loneliness.

Marrow is the essential part. It is the element that remakes time, people and relationships. The essential part is a "journey" that passes through bone marrow donors and receptors, in an exercise on Time, narrated by their comments, in a space inhabited by photographic memories. A surgical portrait of Time suspended in an imaginary Space.

During a pandemic, Ana, an actress, 45, is confined at home in a room she can't leave, but it is in this place that she will find objets from the past to fill her present. A box with old letters, from the time she started doing theater. A box with external disks where she discover images of her daughters 15 tears ago. A dollhouse that she can put it back together. An intimate first-person portrait. An exercise about memory.