Ágata Pinho

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.

Lourdes and Lana met telepathically using “sensory pills”, a technology that allows access to other people’s sensations from a distance. After months of relationship, Lourdes decides to visit the country house of her parents, Vicente and Carl, and introduce them to her girlfriend.

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it.

Bound by a silent pact, five students make a secret trip to the country for what seems to be an initiation ceremony. In threatening landscapes and abandoned ruins, they submit to the strange rituals of their leader, the Dux.

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist couple Rob and Ryan acknowledge the fact that their mission to save humanity from extinction is doomed. Leaving the rainforest behind, they and adopt little Sasha, born of a young woman who rented her womb for money only to die giving birth. Forced to look straight into the cynicism and selfishness of their choices, while Apocalypse rages around them, Rob and Ryan must finally face their own contradictions without hypocrisy.

In a small apartment in the city, a mother and her son live their own secret and silent routines, sharing these not even with each other. They would like to spend time together, perhaps even talk to each other, but he grows up with animals and planets, whereas she is always elsewhere. The long and circular days push them further inside themselves, but maybe the spark of an unexpected connection can still set them free.

An obese young man and his quest for female companionship at a food-fetish bar called 'Balança' where only the corpulent are allowed to enter.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

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 promise of freedom, independence and an intense life. But the question of meaning brings doubt into everyday life: what if I were happier with someone else or called another place home? When home no longer feels like home, the search becomes routine. When El meets Kay after a break-up, in the midst of her search, their story together begins. Time, space and emotions implode in "Baan", blurring Lisbon with Bangkok, past with present.

In a remote rural area, a woman on the run has a supernatural encounter surrounded by enigmatic sounds. As she immerses herself in that reality, she is confronted with unexpected phenomena that her rational mind cannot understand.

L'effondrement d'une grande banque nationale déclenche l'affrontement de deux réalités…et le conflit entre deux familles. Luis Miguel est un jeune ingénieur portugais parti faire carrière en Angola en laissant derrière lui sa famille ultra traditionnelle et conservatrice et de surcroît touchée par la crise. Son père, Jorge, possède une importante entreprise de construction au Portugal qui est au bord du dépôt de bilan, et sa mère Pilar, femme à l’ambition débordante, espère devenir riche par son divorce. En Angola, Luis Miguel tombe amoureux de Mara, une jolie infirmière qui le sauve de la mort. Norberto, le père de Mara est un homme d'affaires angolais qui possède d'importants investissements au Portugal et qui est également le client numéro un de l'entreprise de construction de Jorge. En effet, il détient le sort de la société de Jorge entre ses mains mais malheureusement pour la famille de Luis Miguel, Norberto garde une rancune tenace contre les Portugais depuis que son propre père a été assassiné par l’un d’eux, pendant la colonisation. Le lourd héritage de son passé et ses intérêts professionnels actuels transforment la crise économique en un affrontement entre deux mondes. A cela, s’ajoute la vengeance d’une femme…Luena ! Luena veut récupérer à tout prix les biens de ses parents, des rapatriés du Portugal, qui avaient perdu toute leur fortune lors de l’indépendance de l’Angola. De plus, elle a un fils avec Norberto, le père de son amie Mara. Mara apprend après la mort de sa mère que celle-ci n'était pas sa mère biologique et de même pour son père. En effet, elle a été adoptée pendant la guerre. Norberto l'a trouvée dans la maison où sa mère biologique gisait sur le sol.