Luís Costa

A dialogue with a diaspora of images that turns into an allegory capable of challenging reality and its inversions. Drummer and composer Gabriel Ferrandini unveils his new record in what is his first encounter with the filmmaker Luís Costa.

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A documentary series focused on the work of portuguese photographers searching for their images, following them through every stage of each project. Between the first intuition and a final photograph, this series portraits those time eclipses.

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One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.

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The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.

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In a village where time and space run out, a child dwells in the death vortex.

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Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of Super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino's urge of cinema into a film about the images of his memory.

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A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.

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Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.

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A documentary series focused on the work of portuguese photographers searching for their images, following them through every stage of each project. Between the first intuition and a final photograph, this series portraits those time eclipses.

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Drawing from an archive of letters written in the 1960s, the film reimagines women's clandestine journeys from across the United States to Mexican border towns to access underground abortion care.

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The first recorded testimony of a group of Brazilian Catholic women who, in the 1970s, embraced the emerging movement of Liberation Theology — a force that reshaped the Church in Latin America by aligning faith with social justice and the struggles of the poor under authoritarian regimes. Pressured by the Brazilian dictatorship and in conflict with Church hierarchy, they broke with the institution, took a vow of anonymity, and fled into exile in Rome, escaping aboard cargo ships. Today, the fifteen women who remain from the original group agree, for the first time, to share their story.

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Benjamin is trying to raise money through informal exchanges so that he can organize his son’s overdue birthday. Filimone is visiting his family between war missions, trying to be present at the growth of his three daughters. Eulália is a mother of six and gives birth to a new premature baby. Some days after, she has to come back to her job in a landfill.

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Amid dynamics of power, desire, and seduction, Ofélia follows two teenagers who discover their mutual attraction on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, while simultaneously seeking to define their identity and place within an everchanging society.

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