SELECTED FILMS

An exuberant fantasy in which 8 to 14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animals in themselves. The kids emerge from the sea like the original amphibians and colonise a forest, marking out their territory in a break-dance celebration of Nature and her feral sons.

A documentary about the director’s uncle who left his rural village in Portugal for Brazil 50 years ago at the age of 19 never to return. Over the years, he has promised his mother that he would come back… but half a century later, she is still waiting. Why did he never return?

A young man under house arrest spends his time making tattoos for money. His peace is disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. Between breaking his house arrest and finding the kids who took his money comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreigner companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. The sand industry, primary resource for the production of concrete, had reached a dramatic level, endangering the beaches. This event caused a huge euphoria among the businessmen of Mauritania. A great number of trucks started to flow to the Nouakchott port, where many boats sail out to feed the tourist constructions in Cape Verde. Trading Cities starts in Lisbon on a cargo ship. We will undertake an Atlantic route that re-enacts these daily travels, in order to highlight the physical and social transformations in the landscape that these exchanges produce.

Three young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo. But they sing. One day, we will know why we live and why we suffer.

People who over generations have been influenced, converted, submitted, displaced, and assimilated by the Portuguese, how do they live, think, remember, dream and resist today?