A Viagem

A group of young people go to a camp for fun, but everything starts to get weird when one of the members disappear. An unknown man appears and starts killing people, their objective is to get out of the forest as quickly as possible.

A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 - Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that will gradually unravel the circumstances in which these original filming were made, during the period of Portuguese domination of Mozambique, based on Margot Dias' unpublished diary and other texts and sounds, from archives related to the colonial period. But it's also these materials' confrontation with the people we are meeting on the trip to Mozambique, to whom we want to return part of its history.

Short animation film by Leonor Arrimar

Evandro Souza is an engineer and travels for the first time to the interior of the country, in the village of Barreira Pequé, on the banks of the Araguaia River. He begins to make friends with the natives of the region, like Marão, but what he did not expect was to be involved in a murder. Evandro was the only witness to the crime committed by Marão, however, when questioned, he does not know what to say. Until there is a meeting between Evandro, Marão and the local corporal.

"Voyage to Morocco" is the second film of a series made from found footage on silent super 8. Combining images shot in Morocco in the 60's, texts by the writer Paul Bowles, Moroccan traditional music and a minute sound design, a narrator invents a memory for those images, rewrites its sense. A film essay about the experience of traveling, in geographical, imaginary and metaphysical sense. To travel is a pretext to speak about other cultures and look for diversity, but traveling to visit a friend may also be a farewell.

"A Long Journey" tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960's. The documentary's storyline follows the youngest brother's travels around the world. Worried that he would enter the struggle for freedom against the Brazilian dictatorship, his family sent Heitor to London. There however, he dives head on into the "Swinging London" and, just like the European and American youth of the time period, he experiments with drugs and the mystic allure of India. In the nine years he has traveled around the world, from 1969 to 1978, he has regularly written to his family. The documentary features interviews with Heitor today, his letters and off-screen comments of Heitor's sister, Lúcia Murat, the director of the movie.

A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe.

Made during the inspection of the Brazilian border with Venezuela and British Guiana, this film depicts the Amazon River and the boat traffic from several neighbouring countries, the cities of Santarém and Manaus, and the expedition up the Rio Branco to Boa Vista, where farming is practiced. At the boundary with Venezuela, Cândido Rondon receives a visit from the chiefs of the local tribes. The film ends with an expedition up Mount Roraimã.

Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.

When filming “Esta é a Minha Casa”, the Fundos confessed to the director their desire to come to Lisbon. The Portuguese capital was then frequently featured in the French social media, due to a campaign of promotion of EXPO. A year later, during the summer holydays, João Pedro Rodrigues films the family again on their tour of the capital’s historical sites and the suburbs and on their trip to Expo or the Luz Stadium.

Third in the Sãotomense horror trilogy.

Mbye Ebrima was born in Gambia and lives in Lisbon. He uses his instrument, the kora, to transmit the knowledge acquired through generations and generations of griots. To fulfill his mission, he creates a festival to spread the instrument and also reflects on his status as an immigrant.